Installation onto logical partition

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

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

ko van Zeelan
 
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
 
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