Vista can't find a suitable volume on which to install?

[Guest]

Has anyone come across this before?

Vista brings up my drive correctly and identifies the size correctly but
won't let the install continue because the volume "isn't suitable"?

 

[John Barnes]

Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't install to a
raw hd

 

[Guest]

Yes, I have a 60gb primary and 4 x 80gb logical partitions.

 

[John Barnes]

Have you tried to delete the primary partition and recreate and format it
with the Vista install DVD? Is it formatted NTFS and is it marked active?

 

[Guest]

Yeah and that didn't work.

However, I've got there..........I basically rebuilt the entire drive
structure using a program called Boot-It and now Vista is installing.

I guess there was something about how I originally had the drive partitioned
that Vista wasn't happy with!!

Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Did you create a partition prior to installing with a third party tool?
How large is the drive and destination volume?
How did you format it? FAT32 or NTFS?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[John Barnes]

Glad you found the secret. BootItNg is a very good product. Vista does use
a slightly different version of NTFS that needs to be used, but that should
have been available deleting and reformatting with the install disk. Good
luck from here.