Installation onto logical partition

[Guest]

Vista RC1 will not install onto a logical partition. I have made sure:
1. The partition is marked active.
2. The partition is large enough.
3. The partition is made and formatted with the installer.
Installation chokes with a "Windows is unable to find a system volume that
meets its criteria for installation" error.

Can installation of Vista be performed onto a logical partition? (if not,
this NEEDS to be fixed.)

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Can installation of Vista be performed onto a logical partition? (if not,
this NEEDS to be fixed.)

You can't install on a logical partition because you need to boot off
it. XP had this issue also IIRC. You can create up to 3 physical
partitions (+ the extra physical for the logical partitons) so just boot
off one off those.

Tony

 

[Peter M]

Of course you can.. all my vista betas have been installed on logical
partitions. I've even run xp on a logical. Windows doesn't care what
partition it's on as long as there is one active primary partition c:\,
it'll just place the bootloader on the primary active partition.

John, don't make the logical partition active. You already have a primary
active partition which would be C:. Vista will just put it's bootmanager on
C:.

 

[mayor]

Yep, RC-1 works fine here installed on a logical partition.

 

[ko van Zeeland]

Vista RC1 will not install onto a logical partition. I have made sure:

1. The partition is marked active.
2. The partition is large enough.
3. The partition is made and formatted with the installer.
Installation chokes with a "Windows is unable to find a system volume
that
meets its criteria for installation" error.

Can installation of Vista be performed onto a logical partition? (if
not, this NEEDS to be fixed.)

I do have more then one OS, including Vista installed on a logicol partition
there are no problems I know off.

ko van Zeelan

 

[Guest]

Do I need to
1. Make both the primary parttion active.
2. Will xp and vista boot fine
a) If botht the parttion active.
b) If Only 1 partition is active and XP is installed there.

Thanks,
RSK