i need help if anyone has any ideas please post this is my situation I use windows xp pro withsp2 as my operating system i have a partition on my drive and i tried to install windows vista build 5342 on this partition but windows vista was corrupted and it was only a partial install. I cannot delete it how do i get rid of it it does not show up on the drive i cannot find any vista files to delete it dosent show up in the boot.ini what happens is when i boot my machine it gives me a message saying that there has been a fatal system error and that my file is corrupted. then i can hit enter and it gives me a screen with two options my windows xp pro or windows setup(the setup for vista) i select xp pro and it loads up fine and im good to go but that is rediculous someone must know how i can get rid of this without formatting...pls help me