Alright guys recently I took a foray into mac osx 10.6 on the asus eeepc and since I am avid at changing os' sometimes more often than I change my underwear I had no qualms with dropping the recovery partition like a bad habit. And after playing with osx I decided to go back to windows, so I launch the osx install again and format to fat and then reboot and run xp from the thumbdrive. Well i fudged up when doing the thumbdrive so I tracked down the holder of the key to the IT room and found an external cd rom drive and think all is well. Still a no go doesnt see the hard drive, oh well no biggy pop in backtrack4 sd card and boot into gparted format to ntfs and back to the cd rom drive. Still no hard drive detected... wtf... back to gparted which i now realize is only reading 149.something gb. OSX installer sees 160. So I get into more detail and realize that gparted is also recognized 5 partitions but only showing 2.
I HAVE NO CLUE WTF is going on please help this is the first time I have been stumped. Damn netbooks..