My only fubar, was in forgetting to change the new system partition to "Active".
I pulled out hair for about 20 to 30mins before I realized I had forgot to mark the new System Reserved partition "Active" and to tell Windows to not assign a drive letter before rebooting.
At first my rig was giving a "cannot find boot mngr" or something to that effect and wouldn't boot up.
Thank God for me making a System Repair Disk in advance, so I could boot this sucker up and see what was wrong in the storage management tools.
Thank God I have enough experience to take a deep breath, shout an expletive and then remember to boot from the repair disc.
Anyhow, I can now do whatever I want, as far as things like installing Linux for a dual boot system.
New System Reserved and 50GB partitions in place and waiting to be used.
