Vista - Vista Beta 2 install

I get to the Install Windows window. The question is
'Where do you want to install Windows?'

I have two IDE HDDs
Dynamic Disk 0 Partition 1 6.0 GB Total Size 5.9 GB Free Space
Dynamic Disk 1 Partition 1 9.8 GB Total Size 16.7 GB Free Space

I have managed to Format disk 0 but was unable to install. The message
I get is:
'The selected partition requires at least 6667 MB free space.'

I then tried installing to disk 1 but cannot because the options
(Delete, Format, New, and Extend) are all disabled.
There is an error that says:
'Windows cannot be installed to the selected partition because it has
one or more dynamic volumes'

How do I proceed? I am thinking it is because of either dynamic disks
or size of disks. What do others think?

I was able to connect a 100GB SATA HDD and see the install complete.
But I am not able to login normally. As soon as the login screen comes
up, I choose a user account and when I click on the password field, it
reboots.

I went in through Safe Mode and found some Event ID 6000 in Error Log
that said 'Winlogon notification subscriber <SessionEnv> was
unavailable to handle a notification event'

Any ideas?

Ash wrote:
> I get to the Install Windows window. The question is
> 'Where do you want to install Windows?'
>
> I have two IDE HDDs
> Dynamic Disk 0 Partition 1 6.0 GB Total Size 5.9 GB Free Space
> Dynamic Disk 1 Partition 1 9.8 GB Total Size 16.7 GB Free Space
>
> I have managed to Format disk 0 but was unable to install. The message
> I get is:
> 'The selected partition requires at least 6667 MB free space.'
>
> I then tried installing to disk 1 but cannot because the options
> (Delete, Format, New, and Extend) are all disabled.
> There is an error that says:
> 'Windows cannot be installed to the selected partition because it has
> one or more dynamic volumes'
>
> How do I proceed? I am thinking it is because of either dynamic disks
> or size of disks. What do others think?

I was able to solve this by replacing my ATI Radeon 9600 with a nVidia
card. Problem went away right away.

I am now able to boot in to Vista without any crashes.

IndustrialParts wrote:
> I was able to connect a 100GB SATA HDD and see the install complete.
> But I am not able to login normally. As soon as the login screen comes
> up, I choose a user account and when I click on the password field, it
> reboots.
>
> I went in through Safe Mode and found some Event ID 6000 in Error Log
> that said 'Winlogon notification subscriber <SessionEnv> was
> unavailable to handle a notification event'
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ash wrote:
> > I get to the Install Windows window. The question is
> > 'Where do you want to install Windows?'
> >
> > I have two IDE HDDs
> > Dynamic Disk 0 Partition 1 6.0 GB Total Size 5.9 GB Free Space
> > Dynamic Disk 1 Partition 1 9.8 GB Total Size 16.7 GB Free Space
> >
> > I have managed to Format disk 0 but was unable to install. The message
> > I get is:
> > 'The selected partition requires at least 6667 MB free space.'
> >
> > I then tried installing to disk 1 but cannot because the options
> > (Delete, Format, New, and Extend) are all disabled.
> > There is an error that says:
> > 'Windows cannot be installed to the selected partition because it has
> > one or more dynamic volumes'
> >
> > How do I proceed? I am thinking it is because of either dynamic disks
> > or size of disks. What do others think?