Vista can't find a suitable volume on which to install?

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Has anyone come across this before?

Vista brings up my drive correctly and identifies the size correctly but
won't let the install continue because the volume "isn't suitable"?
 
Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't install to a
raw hd
 
Have you tried to delete the primary partition and recreate and format it
with the Vista install DVD? Is it formatted NTFS and is it marked active?
 
Yeah and that didn't work.

However, I've got there..........I basically rebuilt the entire drive
structure using a program called Boot-It and now Vista is installing.

I guess there was something about how I originally had the drive partitioned
that Vista wasn't happy with!!

Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.
 
Glad you found the secret. BootItNg is a very good product. Vista does use
a slightly different version of NTFS that needs to be used, but that should
have been available deleting and reformatting with the install disk. Good
luck from here.
 
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