Heyas,

So I got me a notebook for Christmas/Birthday/Graduation from me mother two weeks ago which obviously came with an even further crap-laden version of Vista 64bit. I wanna duel boot XP and Vista, so I went to go format and repartition everything in my HD. Buuut, PartitionMagic8 gave me the wonderful message of "Partition table error #105 found" when trying to read the drive to see what was there. Trying to format the drive gave me "Error #4, bad argument/parameter". Great.

So I whipped out my GParted CD to see if it could do anything. It couldn't. It wouldn't even go to GUI like it usually does, but went to a slightly fancy command line. ...And I wasn't about to deal with that.

So, why is my hdd not readily interpreted by such partitioning programs? Is there just a quick setting I have to fix, or do I have to pull out the big guns and soak my laptop in bleach?

I stand ready and poised to shoot out any more info if asked, o' course.