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Can't Install Vista Beta 2 to 2nd Drive
  1. 26 Aug 2006 #1


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    Can't Install Vista Beta 2 to 2nd Drive

    I'm trying to install Vista Beta 2 to my 2nd Physical HD. When I try to
    select Drive 1 to install to, I get " Windows is unable to find a system
    volume that meets its criteria for installation"

    My Drive 0 is a 80gb SATA and my Drive 1 is a 40gb PATA. Both Drives are
    formatted NTFS and set to primary. Drive 1 is freshly reformatted and Drive 0
    is running XP Pro.

    Any ideas? Thanks.....



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  2. 26 Aug 2006 #2


    andy Guest

    Re: Can't Install Vista Beta 2 to 2nd Drive

    On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:08:01 -0700, snolsen
    <snolsen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

    >I'm trying to install Vista Beta 2 to my 2nd Physical HD. When I try to
    >select Drive 1 to install to, I get " Windows is unable to find a system
    >volume that meets its criteria for installation"
    >
    >My Drive 0 is a 80gb SATA and my Drive 1 is a 40gb PATA. Both Drives are
    >formatted NTFS and set to primary. Drive 1 is freshly reformatted and Drive 0
    >is running XP Pro.
    >
    >Any ideas? Thanks.....

    What drive is the BIOS set to boot from?
    And is there an active primary partition on that drive?

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