cant partition my ard drive

[BluerjB]

I've been tryin noumerous times to prtition my hard drive.
when i partition it with acronis disk director suite, it would tell me to reboot bu after i reboot the drive partition i created isnt there.

im running windows 7. i've tryedthe samething with windows xp.
i have at 200G gard drive.
pentium4 2.ghz
512mb ram

p.s: i dont have that conector for that hard drive so i cant make it a slave or master.

Thanks

[Mulreay]

Have a look at this..
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348

[patio]

Disk director is one of the better apps out there for disk management...you may have missed a step or two.
What exactly are you doing in setting up the partitions ? ?