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

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No it does not work. I tried your solution and various others I thought of
myself, but still

I can't install the windows vista !!!

anyone DO SMTH !!!!
 
My client set partion that he want to install Vista as active partition. And
it solved the problem.
 
My client set partition, that he want install Vista on, as active partition.
It solve his probblem.
 
Frustrating, I know. Well, tonight I'll go see if anything else I did helped
get it installed. Something did it for me, and it wasn't anything I did to my
hardware, so I'll look into it.
 
Frustrating, I know. Well, tonight I'll go see if anything else I did helped
get it installed. Something did it for me, and it wasn't anything I did to my
hardware, so I'll look into it.
 
i'm also having the same problem...with a minor complication. my two hard
drives are partitioned thus:

disk 0 part 1 9.6GB 9.5GB primary
disk 1 part 1 996.0 MB 0.0MB primary
disk1 part 2 73.6GB 0.0MB primary

where disk0 is the drive i want to put vista on, disk1 part1 is a Linux swap
partition, and disk1 part2 carries a Linux OS. disk0 part1 has been
formatted by the vista installer; i'm not touching disk1, as it has all my
important data.
i tried stripping it down to just disk0, completely disconnecting disk1, but
then i get no boot; it won't even boot to the dvd, so i can't install it
without having disk1 attached and acting as master.
any ideas?

-F
 
same problem, minor complication.

two drives;

disk0part1 9.6GB primary
disk1part1 966MB primary
disk1part2 73.6GB primary

disk0part1 is desired location for vista, disk1part1 is Linux swap,
disk1part2 is Linux OS. complication: disk1 will boot w/out disk0, but disk0
will not boot w/out disk1 (which eliminates any possibilities of stripping
down to just disk0).

Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, hard drives as above.

any ideas?

-F
 
same problem, minor complication.

two drives;

disk0part1 9.6GB primary
disk1part1 966MB primary
disk1part2 73.6GB primary

disk0part1 is desired location for vista, disk1part1 is Linux swap,
disk1part2 is Linux OS. complication: disk1 will boot w/out disk0, but disk0
will not boot w/out disk1 (which eliminates any possibilities of stripping
down to just disk0).

Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, hard drives as above.

any ideas?

-F
 
Steve Z said:
Similar issue here. I have XPpro set up on my RAID-0 configuration but also
have a seperate 150GB Raptor which I use for progs and games. I partitioned
that in half, so I have a clean 75gb partition for the window Vista beta.
Now, my WinXP-Pro if 32 bit, and I am trying to install Vista Beta2 64 on the
clean partition I made. I don't think there should have been any issue.
Aside from the fact it was also giving me errors whe I downloaded the
ISO....But that is another issue.

Any ideas anyone>? I have done what other have suggested, as far as
disconnecting everything but mouse and keyboard. Still get the same system
volume error.
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AMDFX57
2xWD200 RAID-0(XP Pro)
150 GB Raptor(Games and Vista*hopefully*)
XFI-ExtremeMusic
2xBFG7800GTX256 SLI
A8n32 Deluxe Nforce X16
2405FPW digital 1920*1200
Click to expand...
 
disk0part1 9.6GB primary - How is this formatted? And for Vista a minimum
partition of 15Gigs is required.
 
guys, i guess i have found out the roots of the problem.

It's not anything todo with RAID ( as we can read on google ), because at
least I
have normal ATA harddisc without raid. And yet I have this problem.

At the beginning I have thought that my NTFS might be wrong (bad clasters
size/etc)
but even after formatting the partition WITH vista installation disc, the
problem was still THERE. So the NTFS partition is correct.

Everyone of us have already partitioned harddrive. I have too (Linux).
That's why it does not work. You say: what? why? how? The answer is simple:
because Vista is even more user friendly, so it thinks that it's users will
be dumb, so they don't have partitioned HD. Microsoft programmers didn't
expect that we - users would like to install Vista on partitioned HD.

Solution? Remove all partitions. Make one NTFS partition. Install.
As I said on the beginnning "this is a guess" - I won't remove my Gentoo,
because it's too troublesome and LONG to install it once more. Anyone pls try
this method and tell me if it works,

As for the end, I want to say one thing: You have an OS, you are
distributing it for developers, smart people - yet, you distribute stable
version. Yet you didn't make any test to check if it works. You are dumb then.

In place of "You" put an apropriate company's name.
 
Yes, well Microsoft is Microsoft, and their mindset is the ultimite
antithesis of the thought process of Linux users. However, even though I
would love to Microsoft bash right now, I myself got Vista installed on my
forth primary partition with a Linux root, Linux swap and Linux boot on my
third, second, and first consecutively. I'm tied up with getting Vista to
like my wireless network at the moment, but I'll continue to look into why
the install worked for me after I had so much trouble before.
 
same problem, minor complication.

two drives;

disk0part1 9.6GB primary
disk1part1 966MB primary
disk1part2 73.6GB primary

disk0part1 is desired location for vista, disk1part1 is Linux swap,
disk1part2 is Linux OS. complication: disk1 will boot w/out disk0, but disk0
will not boot w/out disk1 (which eliminates any possibilities of stripping
down to just disk0).

Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, hard drives as above.

any ideas?

-F
 
same problem, minor complication.

two drives;

disk0part1 9.6GB primary
disk1part1 966MB primary
disk1part2 73.6GB primary

disk0part1 is desired location for vista, disk1part1 is Linux swap,
disk1part2 is Linux OS. complication: disk1 will boot w/out disk0, but disk0
will not boot (even to dvd) w/out disk1 (which eliminates any possibilities
of stripping down to just disk0).

Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, hard drives as above.

any ideas?

-F
 
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 CD
- 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 !!
 
That's a no go for me too! Your suggestion didn't work for me either.

Dell Dimension 4500
2.8Ghz Pentium IV
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128 mb All-in Wonder
1 Gig of RAM
SATA 36 Gig Western Digital drive - 10,000 RPM
SATA 250 Gig Maxtor drive w/ 16mb cache 7200 RPM
IDE 300 Gig Maxtor drive w/ 16mb cache 7200 RPM
External IDE 160 Gig Seagate drive 7200 RPM
Creative Labs X-fi Extreme Music
16x Pioneer DVR-110D DVD Burner
8x Sony DRU-530 DVD Burner
 
Any real fix for this? I have the same problen on a fresh 110gig HD and it
tells me it doesnt fir the criteria.. HELP!!!!
 
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