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Vista won't install on my 9200?
This is strange.
I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. |
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Vista won't install on my 9200?
wrote in message oups.com... This is strange. I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. I ran into this and it really threw me. Go into the BIOS and go into the settings for drives. Your machine is likely setup to NOT be RAID. Even if you only have one drive, Choose RAID, save your settings and try again. The DVD has the drivers when it is set to RAID (which seems to be the recommended choice anyway). Tom |
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Vista won't install on my 9200?
On Apr 7, 2:50 pm, "Tom Scales" wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... This is strange. I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. I ran into this and it really threw me. Go into the BIOS and go into the settings for drives. Your machine is likely setup to NOT be RAID. Even if you only have one drive, Choose RAID, save your settings and try again. The DVD has the drivers when it is set to RAID (which seems to be the recommended choice anyway). Tom- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for that Tom, I'll give it a try....................before I do though (forgive my ignorance), if I set it RAID will I lose everything on my 2nd hard drive (something in my head keeps niggling at me to do with mirrored volumes and stuff?). |
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Vista won't install on my 9200?
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oups.com... This is strange. I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. I am running Vista on a machine with three SATA drives, and have had the same problem 1 of the 3 times I performed a clean install. I think the installer is buggy, because this problem does not always occur in identical scenarios. In any case, the solution for me was to disconnect all my secondary HDDs, and boot into the Vista install with only my primary boot drive connected. Once Vista was installed, there was no problem reconnecting my secondary drives. -phil |
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Vista won't install on my 9200?
wrote in message oups.com... On Apr 7, 2:50 pm, "Tom Scales" wrote: wrote in message oups.com... This is strange. I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. I ran into this and it really threw me. Go into the BIOS and go into the settings for drives. Your machine is likely setup to NOT be RAID. Even if you only have one drive, Choose RAID, save your settings and try again. The DVD has the drivers when it is set to RAID (which seems to be the recommended choice anyway). Tom- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for that Tom, I'll give it a try....................before I do though (forgive my ignorance), if I set it RAID will I lose everything on my 2nd hard drive (something in my head keeps niggling at me to do with mirrored volumes and stuff?). You should not have a problem, but remember the mantra -- backup. If it is just a data drive and you're not trying to setup dual boot, disconnect it during the install to be safe. |
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Vista won't install on my 9200?
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:19:06 -0400, "Phil"
wrote: wrote in message roups.com... This is strange. I received my Vista Business upgrade DVD last week and thought I'd install it today using the workaround to bypass the upgrade bit and perform a clean install. So I pop it in the caddy, boot the machine up and it obediently spins in to life.........it gets as far as the "insert product key" screen so I ignore that and click "Next". Vista then pops up a nag screen telling me what a bad person I am and how I should enter my product key, yada yada yada...........I click "no" to the "do you want to enter your product key?" prompt. So the screen changes; the Upgrade option is greyed out and I only have the option of (I think?) "Custom".....a message at the bottom of the screen tells me "the upgrade option has been disabled". Ok, fair enough, only one button that's clickable, let's click it. This brings up a list of my volumes (I have two drives, each with about 10 partitions on).........I should add,that these aren't the original hard drives so the primary drive doesn't have the hidden Dell restore/diagnostics partitions. Anyway, I click on drive c: and Vista complains something about being unable to find a suitable volume on which to install? Any pointers? Is this SATA related and I have to load drivers (I notice there's a "load drivers" option on this screen)? So far, I'm not impressed with Vista and that's without even getting as far as installing it! Any help appreciated. I am running Vista on a machine with three SATA drives, and have had the same problem 1 of the 3 times I performed a clean install. I think the installer is buggy, because this problem does not always occur in identical scenarios. In any case, the solution for me was to disconnect all my secondary HDDs, and boot into the Vista install with only my primary boot drive connected. Once Vista was installed, there was no problem reconnecting my secondary drives. -phil Vista installer is buggy..... naw that can't be. Vista is the WOW OS I thought grin. |
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