Success at last! Turns out that if you buy DDS 10 online you don't get the lastest version. I went back to the Acronis website and found an...
Interim feedback: Problem 50% solved! On the XP disk I used XP disk management to reformat the empty partition; it worked and is now seen as a 07...
Thanks for that discussion, guys. I do have True Image so will copy the data off before reformatting. It may take 24 hrs before I come back but...
Hi guys, I'm in the UK so there's always likely to be a time lag in responding. |'m pretty sure I used Vista disk management to create the Vista...
Mark, I researched the errors soon after I posted and came to the same conclusion - irrelevant. The 'drvmcdb.sys' driver seems to be a Vista...
Mark, First, thanks for your time on this. Device Manager: no yellow exclamation points. Virtual Disk Service: Yes, it was 'stopped'; I clicked...
Mark, OK, I right-clicked the empty partition on the XP disc, selected the format option but got the same 'out-of-date console view' message....
Mark, Would that it were that simple! I'd already tried that. I get a message 'The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management...
I've attached the views you asked for. I used Acronis DDS 10.0 build 2160
I have 2 SATA hard disks, Vista Home Edition on one, XP SP2 on the other. I used DDS to partition both disks. Vista partition 1 contains the OS...
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