Hi, Berni69.
Since Vista sees all your partitions, you probably are not hitting the SATA
or RAID driver problems that Jane asked about.
SATA means Serial ATA, a recent improvement over Parallel ATA (PATA), which
we've called IDE drives for years. RAID is an Redundant Array of
Independent Disks, which is a method of using multiple physical drives to
increase speed and/or safety of our storage system. If you don't know what
these terms mean, you probably don't need to worry with them for now.
You haven't yet told us HOW you are trying to install Vista. Are you
booting from the Vista DVD? Or are you booting into WinXP, then inserting
the Vista DVD and running Setup from inside WinXP? Are you trying to
install the x64 (64-bit) or x86 (32-bit) version of Vista? You can't
install 64-bit Vista on a 32-bit computer.
It might help, too, if you tell us a little more about your computer. Make
and model, for starters. Your post says that Vista complains that your
computer doesn't meet the criteria for Vista; that does not necessarily mean
that you don't have enough disk space. Maybe you don't have enough RAM, or
your video card is inadequate or some other factor may be holding you back.
We can only shoot wildly in the dark if you don't tell us anything about
your computer. You can see it. We can't.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 RC2 Build 5744)
