Windows Media Player & Other issues

[howie7]

Asus M4A785TD-V EVO MB
2Gb RAM
AMD PHenon II X3 2.8 CPU
Maxtor 160GB HD
Windows XP SP3 & Vista SP1 Dual-boot

I have recently upgraded my MB to the above from an Asus A7N8X deluxe.

Issue1.

Within Vista, upon boot-up, a message 'Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service stopped working and was closed' appears. Sometimes a couple of times during bootup.

Does anyone know how to prevent / fix this error.

Issue2.

I have been trying to re-size my partitions, since my new MB was installed.

C: Primary has XP
E: has Vista.
I also have D:, F: & G: partitions + CD/DVD H: & I:

I have tried to transfer approx 18GB from the C: to E:.

On trying to do this i used Partitionmagic 8 in Vista. An error occured during the process, which caused appr 18GB as unallocated.

I have been unable to reverse the transfer, and thus I've created an unwanted J: with this space. Also, Vista now no longer sees the C: properly, advising that the partition size is zero & I get 'Access is denied' warning. Windows XP, working on the C: is still working ok, but has a slow boot-up.

Can anyone help in my dilema & perhaps advise of a safe to use disc utility which is Vista compatible, which could sort out my issues.

[Ferrit]

I can only advise what I would do and to start that would be dont use partition magic on anything thats already installed.
!: Buy an external harddrive.
2: Copy all the data off of drives totally to the external.
3: Reinstall XP first then vista.
4: Copy the pertinent data back.

[Niclo Iste]

160Gb HDD is a bit of a tight fit for both of those Operating Systems. XP with updates generally takes up around 40GB (If I'm remembering correctly) and I had an issue recently with my Vista install finding my 120GB drive not enough after all the update and with the data I have on the drive. I haven't looked into what Vista with all the updates takes up alone but it just seems you may be having issues because of limited storage space.

[slgrieb]

I think Ferrit's solution is the most practical. I've only encountered the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Error in two upgrade installations of Vista, and in both cases it took a clean installation to fix the issue. Niclo is certainly right; you should invest in a bigger drive.

[geoscomp]

I'm thinking that XP with all updates takes closer to 4 gb instead of 40..otherwise my 80 gb drive with windows (windows folder 3 gb), and all programs (program folder 4 gb) docs, (folder 4 gb) and Ubuntu dual boot (17gb) wouldn't have 40 gb of free space