STRICQ Posted May 28, 2006 Posted May 28, 2006 When I run Vista Beta 2 from DVD, I get to the choose an installation partition, I choose the partition and I get this error:"Windows Setup is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation"The drive is NTFS, 50Gig with 30Gig free. It is the first logical partition on the drive (Primary partition is XP, second partition, logical, would be Vista.) Those are the only two partitions on the drive. It is the Primary Slave drive on the IDE bus.I have a non-standard boot loader (GRUB) on the Primary Master Drive.
STRICQ Posted May 28, 2006 Author Posted May 28, 2006 Nobody has any ideas? Not surprising, it's not even mentioned on MSDN.
Mr Snrub Posted May 28, 2006 Posted May 28, 2006 That's definitely beta 2, and not a daily build of Vista?There was an issue with the daily builds around Christmas and into the new year where it would not install on any partition and gave that message - other than that, if I can get the list of partitions up then Vista will at least attempt to install in my experience.Tried deleting and recreating the logical partition from within the WinPE part of the Vista install?I've installed on laptops, desktops and virtual machines, using PATA, SATA (even RAID now) and SCSI, and never had that problem - the only unknown to me is GRUB.Vista would blitz the boot loader anyway to implement BCD.
STRICQ Posted May 30, 2006 Author Posted May 30, 2006 I have now installed Vista Beta 2.@Mr SnrubI've installed on laptops, desktops and virtual machines, using PATA, SATA (even RAID now) and SCSI, and never had that problem - the only unknown to me is GRUB.Vista would blitz the boot loader anyway to implement BCD.No, it won't. That was the problem.Once I replaced GRUB, it wasn't needed anymore as Vista was taking SuSE's partition space, Vista happily installed on my selected partition.I had to use my XP boot CD to get into the Recovery Console, FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and that did the trick. Also, it seems that FIXMBR removes the ACTIVE flag from the boot partition, so you have to SELECT the partition and make it active with the ACTIVE command.With all that done, I have Vista installed and working wonderfully.
rewtgh Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 You must install windows vista on a primary partition, you can easily accomplish that with partitionmagic
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