Last Friday evening by son, who uses my machine sometimes and to whom I erroneously gave administrator rights, I was removing a game he had previously installed for the game that manufacturer's uninstall. The game was an XP game. He should have gone through the control panel facilities to uninstall the game: for it trashed the partition entirely. This was a dual-boot machine: XP-pro on the C: drive, VISTA ultimate on the F: drive. An external USB drive had my backups, made as a cloned copy as my G: drive and my H: drive.   read more »