Boot Camp Woes - XP and Vista on OS X

Whilst 'fiddling' with my MacBook this morning, I thought I'd have a go at getting a dual-boot installation of both XP and Vista going. 

Figured I'd install XP first to a 30-gig partition, split that into a 10GB and a 20GB partition using the XP installer and then roll XP into the 10GB; then reboot off the Vista DVD, slide that baby into the 20GB and using VistaBootPro, set XP as the default OS startup. Plus, set XP as FAT32 and Vista as NTFS, and XP can be the 'swap' partition to allow me to copy data onto Vista from OSX, using the FAT partition as temporary storage.

Anyway, it was a great plan. Until, that is, the Boot Camp partitioner fell over, leaving me with a 120GB hard disk reporting as 80GB - 30GB missing. 

I tried everything - disk utility, repair permissions, verify disk - all lucked out. Even the OSX installer on the Leopard DVD wouldn't have any of it.

In the end I've had to trash the whole damn disk using the XP utility on the XP disc, boot into the OSX DVD installer, erase the disc as Mac OS Journaled and then reinstall Leopard.

So, if you're thinking about doing it - my advice would be ... don't!