Another Other Note

So I spontaneously decided to format my desktop and install a new OS. Normally, this is a perfectly reasonable undertaking. Except, of course, if the OS in question is Window Vista. Everything went swimmingly up until the point where it came time to format the hard drive and start installing. After formatting my partition, Vista informed me that the partition did not meet criteria. O RLY? Didn't I just format it to NTFS? So as I write, I am installing XP again, and will probably try to do an upgrade. What makes me sad is that I had less trouble installing Linux and setting up the dual-booting...