drive partitioning for osx86 ipc distro

[sydbarrett74]

hi all,
i have an acer aspire 5730 with two partitions -- c: with vista on it and a d: data partition. both are formatted ntfs. what i'd like to do is put osx on the second (data) partition and have dual-boot between vista and osx, but be able to format the second partition as hfs+ without fubaring my vista partition. is there a way to do this? i ran leopard setup and within disk utility, any options to manipulate the second partion are greyed out. any help is appreciated.

syd

[erick2red]

isn't there an option to erase that partition???

[sydbarrett74]

Nope. The individual partitions are greyed out. My only option is to erase and re(format/partition) the entire drive, which I'd like to avoid if possible. Does it have to do with my formerly using Wubi so I could run Ubuntu on that second partition? I uninstalled Wubi before attempting to load OSX.

[erick2red]

get an Ubuntu livecd and use gparted to erase that partition, and format it like FAT32 or hfs if you can, and then try again with leopard disk

[Taisto]

Try to format second partition with FAT system using Vista or Ubuntu Live CD or else. NTFS partitions created by Vista are sometimes "locked" - dunno why.

Edit : @Eric, seems that you responded in the same time as me ;)