Laptop Install problem

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So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB
for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum
hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the
install complains:
Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for
installation.

Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I
installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB
there for it to install.
If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I
formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours
getting the other partition nice and tidy.
 
You might want to use the Vista Mail newsreader instead of the web-based
reader. That is what is causing your multiple posts. It is happening to a
lot of people.
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
You might want to use the Vista Mail newsreader instead of the web-based
reader. That is what is causing your multiple posts. It is happening to
a lot of people.
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Ah I was wondering what was going on, I thought there was a server problem
or something.
 
No. They get a false indication of failure to upload the message and so
they try again. What would you do if you saw such a message? I just hope
they are bugging it. What is going on is that they are using the links to
newsgroups in the Vista Help and Support Center/Communities instead of the
newsreader in Vista Mail.
 
The problem was the partition needed to be set active (which is as far as I'm
concerned garbage). However now that its set active, its installing. Which
means I'll probably need to spend time recovering my GRUB bootloader
afterwards.
 
Glad you got it fixed.

crossmr said:
The problem was the partition needed to be set active (which is as far as
I'm
concerned garbage). However now that its set active, its installing.
Which
means I'll probably need to spend time recovering my GRUB bootloader
afterwards.
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