Can't create partition because not enough freespace?

Back with a brief question.

I installed Acronis Disk Director on my XP, and it screwed up my Boot sequence due to OS Selector (the same problem I had before). Now it boots directly to XP, and XP can see the Vista drive.

I have an image of my Vista and Ubuntu partitions (I was about to make one of my XP and OS X), and know that I can restore Track 0 and the MBR (which I'm in the process of doing now) to fix my boot sequence, however my question is when XP saw the Vista drive, did anything change within my XP install, or does it only delete the Vista restore points (thus restoring the Vista partition would bring me back to where I was before)?

 

eloper:

Yes, restoring Track 0 should remove OS Selector and restore your former boot manager.

Having XP see the Vista partition should not have caused any harm to XP. When XP saw the Vista partition it would have added another disk drive to "My Computer" and put an entry in the registry, but that shouldn't cause any ill effects.

XP may or may not have deleted the Vista restore points, so you should check first before restoring an image of the Vista partition. If the restore points are still there then don't restore Vista. Restoration will delete the restore points because they keep track of changes to specific sector locations on the disk, and when TI restores an image the files do not necessarily get restored to the exact same sectors. When this happens, Vista detects that the sector map is invalid and deletes the restore points.

 

Sounds good, thanks for the quick response. Restored Track 0 and Vista/XP/Ubuntu boot ok....now OS X doesn't want to boot, so looks like I'll have to re-install that.

Restore points not exactly a huge deal at this point seeing as all my installs are relatively fresh, so I just wanted to make sure that was the only thing that may have been changed.