WIndows XP Does Recognize a partition it makes during Install.

[nsi]

Same issue as someone else, but my issue is that I had Vista Beta 2 on
the system

I got sick of its poor performace so went to put xp back on my system..

So in with teh xp cd, Delete the existing partition, create a new one
but Windows xp or even 2003 server will not recognize the partition,
just says it is incompatible. I even went into Repair mode and formated
teh disk with NTFS, still no good.. So I even fixmbr and formated
again.. Still no good.

So I am having the same issue as the below guy, but this is on the
primary disk and parimary partition and no linux, just deleted the all
vista partition...

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After putting in the windows xp professional install cd, it gets to the
point
of partitioning the drive. i delete the existion partition"D" for
delete, and then "L" to
confirm.

Then i'm back at the main partition screen, showing My HDD and both
partitions (Main drive has two partitions) . i hit 'C' for "Create" a
partion on the main partition (C: Drive)

After i create a partition on that drive,
of any size, goes to the same screen where it asks you to delete the
partition, because windows does not recognize it. but windows formatted
it!

It says this, about the partition it creates:

"To install windows on the partition selected. Setup must writesome
startup
files to the following disk.

<hard drive info>

However, this disk does not contain a Windows compatible partition. To
continue installing Windows, return to the partition screen and create
a
Windows-compatible partition on the disk above."

this makes NO sense.

What the heck is going on here, I ahve never seen this issue before..

Any ideas? / Help?

The drive is a standard Seagate 80GB IDE drive.

 

[Tom Felts]

Boot to recovery console.
Do Fixboot, and them fixmbr, and then reboot and run setup again.