bbintokyo

Thanks, dean-dean.
It doesn't show another drive, no. It shows the 80GB drive (D) that XP is
on and that is unaffected, and the 250GB drive (C) that Vista is on, but not
another. I guess that all the files and so on were saved in Windows.old, as
you say, as everything is there, yes. So I guess that everything is there,
and the drive was not actually partitioned. Now my problem is to restore the
programs and documents somehow. Any ideas?

"dean-dean" wrote:

> You may find your old documents, etc., in a folder called Windows.old. Its
> path is C:\Windows.old (Click on Computer, and then click on the drive
> Vista is installed on. You should see the folder there).
>
> If you created an extra drive, you would see it by clicking on Computer.
>
>
> "bbintokyo" <bbintokyo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:973266C7-257A-47E7-A5D2-815FB90C6C2A@microsoft.com...
> > My Vista was acting a bit funny so I attempted to repair any problems by
> > using the installation disk. I have a 32-bit, OEM version in Japanese (I
> > live in Tokyo) and didn't see a prompt for repair, and ended up
> > reinstalling
> > Vista, losing all of my documents and programs in the process.
> >
> > At least I think so. On a hard disk of 250GB I have 232GB available for
> > use
> > and of that 133GB are free. Does That make sense? Have I accidentally
> > partitioned my hard disk somehow, and if so, how do I locate the other
> > partition and remove it? All programs, documents, photos and downloads
> > are
> > replaceable so it would be annoying but not the end of the world to lose
> > them, but what the heck is going on?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>