Not able to create HDD partition in Lenovo laptop

[Sharad kharya]

Hi,
I purchased Lenovo laptop model no 0768-GZQ --- 512 Ram, 80 GB, duo core 1.6GHz(T2060), windows vista Home Basic.
It is having single drive for total 68GB. rest is for its rescue & recovery purpose.

I uninstalled vista & installed windows XP professional, but not able to create partition with Partition Magic 8.0.
It is giving error message - "Partition drive letter cannot be identified".

Can any one plz provide me the solution asap..that why it is giving this error and what's there to over come this?

Thnx
Sharad.

[sumeetindia]

Start pt magic
tools>create rescue disks
Make rescue disk
And try booting with those
See if the problem presists

Also Try fixing the mbr using Windows XP bootable disk
To fix the MBR, install wxp recovery console (xp install cd), boot to it, and in the command prompt type "fixmbr".