unable to install, supported system

[Guest]

My system is an emachines amd64 laptop,
I am attempting to install the 32bit version of vista on it.
I have 3 partitions.

1. hfs+ because I use gnu darwin 21.9gb
2. windows xp partition 1.4gb
3. potential vista partition 25gb freshly formated
4. 8.2gb unallocated

I want to install on teh third partition, but it is not working for some
reason.

Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for
installtion, is the error I recieve. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
John

 

[Guest]

I have a similar setup (Nforce 4 msi board) and have struggled for a few
days with the same problem.

What i did was this:
- Boot from Vista DVD
- Choose System RESTORE (instead of normal setup)
- After a while you get to another menu and I chose Command Prompt
- I used the DISKPART utlity to delete and create the partition i wanted to
install vista to. ( If you dont know what you are doing diskpart can destroy
your xp partition so be careful)
dikskpart instructions:
english:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../xp/all/proddocs/en-us/diskpart.mspx?mfr=true
spanish:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...518-dde5-4eac-a1f1-38eff6e3e509.mspx?mfr=true
- Once that was done i restarted setup from either x:\setup or look for the
dvd drive letter and start setup from there.
- I didnt bothered to format it from the command prompt but rather left it
to do inside setup. I dont think that makes any difference. Setup completed
succesfully !!