trouble installing vista

drunkenmonkey · 9 Jan 2008 at 20:19

cant seem to install vista on my new build

when i get to the screen where you choose which partition and clk next
i get this message

"windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation"

i have a 250gb seagate and a western digital 250gb but only one drive shows up in vista partition set up screen thingy

i did a quick google and its going on about a mass storage driver

my motherboard is a abit ip35

can anyone help us

drunkenmonkey · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:20

yes i had tried the drive options and formatted the drives but to no effect

drunkenmonkey · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:20

xp service pack 2 installed no trouble but vista is throwing up this error

drunkenmonkey · 10 Jan 2008 at 01:41

thanks for the reply superplay i got it going in the end

i formatted the 2nd drive in winxp then unhitched the primary drive with xp on and set the 2nd drive as the primary drive and vista installed

it wasnt playing ball though the other day with the faulty motherboard i had