I can't reinstall Vista... the setup doesn't detect my partitions!!!!

[Jeje]

Hi,

I try to reinstall Vista on my system (in fact vista was allready installed,
but I want to reinstall it)
the current installation stop working
but the setup doesn't detect my partition!

the setup detect the C and E, but the F which contain my current vista
install is not detected.
maybe its related, the current vista installation has stopped working
(winlogon file not found)

the last step I have done on my system is to format the last partition of my
drive, but I have removed the latest partition without better results.

what can I do?

Thanks.

Jerome.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Make sure the partition is marked active in the device manager of your base
system.

 

[Jéjé]

the partition is active, I have created a new blank one but the partition is
not displayed in the list
the installer display the C: (25Gb; 5Gb free)
and the E: (200Gb 8Gb free)
but in reality, the E: is a 50Gb partition, the F: (with my current vista
installation) is a 50Gb partition
and the new one H: is a 100Gb partition

So I have moved some documents from the E: to the H:, now my E partition has
20Gb free
The installer says that I can't install on the E: because the partition
contains dynamic partitions!!!!

I really don't understand why in the past the near same setup works fine.

 

[AJR]

Jeje - Quoted from your post "the last step I have done on my system is to
format the last partition of my drive,..." and "...and the E: (200Gb 8Gb
free)
but in reality, the E: is a 50Gb..."

It appears you have deleted (through formatting) the "F" partition. In My
Computer what drives are available?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

A partition not appearing usually means that you need to supply the hard
disk controller driver for your system at the Load Drivers button.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

How can you delete a partition by formatting it?

Jeje - Quoted from your post "the last step I have done on my system is to
format the last partition of my drive,..." and "...and the E: (200Gb 8Gb
free)
but in reality, the E: is a 50Gb..."

It appears you have deleted (through formatting) the "F" partition. In My
Computer what drives are available?

 

[Jeje]

but can you explain why last week, before I add a partition, Vista works
fine.

remember I allready have installed Vista on the system without adding any
specific driver.
adding the partition #4 on the drive break vista and cause the installer to
no longuer detect correctly the partitions.

 

[Dennis Pack x64, v64B2 \(5384\), OPP2007B2]

Jeje:
I remember reading something about Vista not seeing a partition
created or formatted using Acronis, but I can't find it. Assuming that your
C drive has an operating system installed, go into "disk management" to see
what is listed on your other drive and verify that the partitions are
formatted NTFS.

 

[Jeje]

all my parttitions are NTFS formatted
and I don't use Acronis

I'll try to install a new physical disk on the system to see what's appends.

 

[Jeje]

well... I'll wait for the RC1 ;-)

 

[Jeje]

no luck

the 5536 (RC1) version suffer the same behavior, the setup doesn't detects
the drives.
I have installed a new one.