Windows is unable to find a system volume that...

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Okay, I have a BRAND NEW dell XPS system.
It has Pentium Dual Core 4MB L2 Cache @ 2 x 3.4ghz (64-Bit).
It has 2GB DDR2 533mhz ram.
I have RAID 0 (Striping) Configuration 'SATA' 2 x 160GB (320GB Total).
I have it partitioned into two segments.
One segment is a FAT32 8GB section for system backup.
The other Primary segment is the 300+GB NTFS Partition for potential Vista
Install.

When I choose to clean instal on the 300GB partition, it says:
"Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for
installation."

I've tried "formatting" it and deleting and reinstating the partition with
no luck.

Someone help, this shouldn't be happining!!!

-chris
 
aiyou said:
I think 300GB is too big, try to minimize it to 80GB.
Click to expand...

Don't be silly, Vista has large drive support and in fact, I'm running
a 400gig RAID0 myself on the nVidia Nforce4 chipset.

Vista does not have built-in support for RAID, but it can be installed
with drivers once you find out what kind of chipset you have and the
related drivers.

Look at this thread for some help in the General group or Google for
it:

Re: I've reverted back to XP
 
I had the same problem, and found after i went into the bios and changed two
things, it let me install.

1. I enabled 32bit on the hard drive.
2. Changed the hard drive to the primary boot divece. I had the dvd drive on
primary (to install vista) but changed it back.

After i made these two changes it worked for me....Good luck!
 
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