How to recover partition for Vista from linux
 

I had two partitions, C and D, 50 Gb each. Windows Vista was installed on C. I installed Scientific Linux 5 on 40 Gb of D partition and left 10 Gb unformatted. Now I want to use that 10 Gb for Vista. How do I recover this space. As from Vista it is only showing C drive.
Thanks

Can't vista do it for you? I think so! You can't recover that partion for vista from linux!

gparted liveCD - move (and resize in need) to arrange things as needed. Organise the free space adjacent to the Vista partition, and then use the Vista disk manager to expand. Basically the M$oft software is better than it used to be, but still isn't up to the job.
Use gparted - it just works.

Well, if it 's unformatted, you should be able to use Windows disk management to format that 10GB to ntfs, making it D. If it's not just free space but a partition that just hasn't been formatted yet, you can just delete it - either from winD'ohs or from Linux - and then recreate it.

There would be more point in moving that 10GB and expanding C: over it, thus getting one 60GB drive, than having a 50GB drive and a separate 10GB drive. It's ok if you are ok with it, but people tend to get these "small" partitions filled up quickly, and it's just a mess to have files spread over two different partitions - especially on Windows, which actually makes them look separate places (C: and D: for example), thus making your file organizing difficult.