Partition Woes (raid array & XP64)

[visibleman]

Have a Raid 0 Array on an Abit IP35 Pro XE board (ICH9R) running XP64 and i'm wanting to partition the raid array to install XP 32bit (unfortunately i need it for some software that won't run properly under XP64). I've tried Norton Partition Magic 8 Pro, Paragon Partition Manager 9 as well as latest GParted and Parted Magic (uses GParted but was told it's slightly modified) liveCDs and all of them fail to partition the raid array, with GParted/Parted Magic not even detecting the raid array and instead showing each of the drives in the array.
I've also was told that the Partition Magic CD is bootable, but that failed too.

Has anyone got any ideas how i can partition my raid array?

The only options i can think of is to either scrap the current XP64 install and start again (perhaps use Norton ghost to take and image to save some of the hassle?), which is the last resort, or to go and get a floppy drive and try the partition magic rescue disks.

Any help with be appreciated!

 

[visibleman]

You can resize partitions in the vista disk management console by right clicking on the partition and selecting the shrink option

Don't want to be unthankful, but i'm not using Vista so i'm not sure how that helps

 

[visibleman]

Cheers all,
Did manage to solve it in the end by buying an external floppy drive, some floppies and creating the rescue disks under Partition Magic - worked a charm!

Pandobear - I ran Vista64 side by side for a few weeks and for the applications i run it was pretty inefficient and overall slower. Plus i had problems with it blue screening (general dodge drivers), something which XP64 has only done once and that was due to me installing the wrong driver for the nic.