Hello Gary,
You will have to increase the size of the C drive before setup can be run
from within your existing copy of Windows.
You can do a clean install by booting to the DVD to run setup.
D drive will have to be NTFS.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|>> Hello Gary,
|>> Are you trying to upgrade or clean install?
|>> Which drive is set as active?
|>> I suspect the C drive is set as active.
|>> Are you running setup from within an existing copy of Windows?
|>> Is there a setupact.log in the windows folder with a current date?
|>> If so sent it to me( remove the online from my email address)
|>>
|>> What I suspect is happening is that the C drive is set as active so
it's
|>> considered the "system drive"
|>> You can check this in disk management, it will show which drive is
|>> considers the boot drive( contains windows) and the system drive(
contains
|>> the boot file)
|>> When you run setup from within an existing copy of Windows, the
boot.wim
|>> file is copied to the "system drive"
|>> then on reboot, you boot into that file( winpe based setup) That file
|>> requires 350-450 meg of disk space on the "system drive"
|>> If you boot to the DVD to do setup, that file is loaded into memory and
|>> never has to be copied onto the hard drive so the requirement is
different.
|>> But if you are in an OS when you start setup, setup does have to copy
that
|>> file over and restart setup using that boot.wim file.
|>> Thanks,
|>> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
|>>
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|>> |>My primary HD was partitioned for some unknown reason with a C: drive
|>> that's
|>> |>8 MB and a D: drive that 74.5 MB. The D: is what's used for my Boot
and
|>> |>storage. I went to install Vista Premium and received the above error
|>> |>message. Thus it's trying to install on the C: and has inadequate
space.
|>> How
|>> |>do I get the upgrade software to install on the D:? It's not asking
me
|>> where
|>> |>I would like to install which is typical of most software. BTW, the
C:
|>> serves
|>> |>me little if any purpose as there are no files there. Thus I would be
|>> happy
|>> |>to have just one drive and no partition.
|>> |>
|>> |>Thanks in advance,
|>> |>
|>> |>Gary
|>> |>
|>>
|>>
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