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

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

"Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
> 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"?

Yes, I have a 60gb primary and 4 x 80gb logical partitions.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't install to a
> raw hd
>
> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
> > 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"?
>
>

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?

"Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F0584E33-6EF4-40F8-8DDD-C78DA0D27688@microsoft.com...
> Yes, I have a 60gb primary and 4 x 80gb logical partitions.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't install
>> to a
>> raw hd
>>
>> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
>> > 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"?
>>
>>

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.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> 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?
>
> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F0584E33-6EF4-40F8-8DDD-C78DA0D27688@microsoft.com...
> > Yes, I have a 60gb primary and 4 x 80gb logical partitions.
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't install
> >> to a
> >> raw hd
> >>
> >> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
> >> > 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"?
> >>
> >>
>
>

Hi,

Did you create a partition prior to installing with a third party tool?
How large is the drive and destination volume?
How did you format it? FAT32 or NTFS?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
> 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"?

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.


"Chris P Bacon" <ChrisPBacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:30091990-0AAE-4F54-B53B-90C61E506458@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:F0584E33-6EF4-40F8-8DDD-C78DA0D27688@microsoft.com...
>> > Yes, I have a 60gb primary and 4 x 80gb logical partitions.
>> >
>> > "John Barnes" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Do you have a proper partition create to install to? You can't
>> >> install
>> >> to a
>> >> raw hd
>> >>
>> >> "Chris P Bacon" <Chris P Bacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:A99629EC-D3CA-46FF-AC60-E1D6CDC41E89@microsoft.com...
>> >> > 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"?
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>