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A friend of mine recently bought one of the new Mac Pros and I'm helping him set it up.

Here's what I want to do and I've been having considerable trouble getting this to work.

My friend got a single terabyte hard drive and I want to partition it into four partitions- one for Leopard, one for Vista, one for Time Machine, and one for Sharing files (FAT 32).

I found out the long way that Boot Camp will not let you install Vista if you already have several partitions on your hard drive.

Here's what I have done so far.

1. Erased the drive and installed a fresh installation of Leopard
2. Run Boot Camp to install Vista (this worked fine and I was able to boot into both operating systems)
3. Booted from OS X install disk and used disk utility to create two new partitions from the HSF formated Leopard drive

My problem is that creating these new partitions deactivated the Vista Partition. The windows partition still shows up in Disk Utility as it did before but when I hold down option to try booting into Windows, Vista no longer shows up. The Mac Works fine as does the Time Machine and Shared partitions.

Could someone please help me to get Vista working again. I hope I won't have to reinstall everything to make this work but if that's the only way, could someone at least tell me how to accomplish my original goal with the computer setup?

[Typhoon14]

Why on Earth would you have your system and Time Machine backups on the same harddrive? This basically defeats the entire purpose of having a backup. If the drive fails, all your data is toast.

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I know the Time Machine backup will not help in the event of a drive failure. But it will help in retrieving accidentally deleted files and restoring the system in the event of a serious kernel panic. Drive failures are pretty rare these days. If my friend gets a second internal drive at some point down the road, I'll be sure to backup to that but this is the setup he has right now.

I just need to know if it is possible to fix the dual booting problem I've encountered. Thanks for any help or ideas.