\nWindows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.\n<\/div>\n
In my case, it was unfixable with Vista’s installer. To fix the drive so that Vista would install, I installed XP x64 into one partition, did a complete NTFS format of another, then restarted the Vista install (selecting the non-XP partition). The machine was previously a linux machine with an ext3 filesystem, which Vista. Just. Will. Not. Handle. Wake up and play nice, Microsoft.<\/p>\n
Vista then proceeded to hang during install. Started it up again, and in the partition manager, it APPEARED that Vista had trashed the drive (it was completely empty and unpartitioned). A reboot proved that my XP install was still OK. Then I attempted the installation from inside XP. And it seems to have worked. I’m glad I don’t work for Micro$soft Tech Support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once again, it can only be intentional. The Vista x64 installer allows you to set up your drive partitions, but it will likely just give you fits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-2i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}