Partitioning Software with Vista

[Moira]

I twice tried the repair option on the Vista disk and it did bugger all. It detected errors with the startup but failed to fix them. It's saved one vista install for me and I thought it was a wonderful feature then - but no, it's not been any help this time.

My restore over the network kept inexplicably asking for a reboot, then going back to the beginning, ie the reboot cancelled Acronis. Since I ditched Ubuntu I had enough space to copy the backup across to the laptop which is what I'm doing now. It ought to work across the network but seems altogether flakier.

Whilst that's going on, I'm reinstalling visual studio AGAIN here as not only have I got that black screen problem, but it's started telling me I can't have registry access when I try to create a new project (instead of opening the project).

I had two and a half hours in bed last night and I'm at work 6 am tomorrow. This is one of the least enjoyable nights I've ever spent.

Edit And I can't see my two other disks in Explorer and I've no idea why! I wanted to copy the backup onto one of them but it's nowhere to be seen!