{"id":142,"date":"2006-12-01T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2006\/12\/01\/ignorant-vista-x64-installer\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T21:18:43","slug":"ignorant-vista-x64-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2006\/ignorant-vista-x64-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorant Vista x64 Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, it can only be intentional. <\/p>\n

The Vista x64 installer allows you to set up your drive partitions, but it will likely just give you fits. <\/p>\n

There is already plenty of information out there<\/a> about the ignorant and uninformative error message that will stop your installation dead:<\/p>\n

\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t