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I have a question… since when is NTFS not the same as NTFS?  Anyone?  I recently received Red Alert 3 as a birthday gift, but for whatever reason, it wouldn’t run in my current install of Windows Vista.  I decided that since the games take up so much space any how, I would create a new partition on my drive and load it up with Vista, then install all of my games there.  When I want to play, I’ll just boot up the gaming install of Vista and the games can run in a clean environment.

Anyways, I used Acronis Disk Director to shrink my current Windows partition to make room for the new one.  Then I create the new partition and format it with NTFS using Disk Director.  Here’s where it gets messed up.  I installed the new copy of Vista, but didn’t format the partition using the Vista setup since it was already formatted using Disk Director.  Vista installed fine, but I found that I couldn’t install any software.  Any setup file, would complain about not having access to the temp folder.

After some searching, I found many people having the same problem.  I started the Vista setup from CD again, but this time formatted the partition right in the Vista setup and all is well.  So, pro tip for the day; if you’re using Disk Director to create a new partition for a Vista install, make sure you format the partition using the tool provided in Vista’s setup and not with Disk Director!