laptop install

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

You might want to use the Vista Mail newsreader instead of the web-based reader. That is what is causing your multiple posts. It is happening to a lot of people.
"crossmr" wrote in message

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

You might want to use the Vista Mail newsreader instead of the web-based reader. That is what is causing your multiple posts. It is happening to a lot of people.

Ah I was wondering what was going on, I thought there was a server problem or something.

No. They get a false indication of failure to upload the message and so they try again. What would you do if you saw such a message? I just hope they are bugging it. What is going on is that they are using the links to newsgroups in the Vista Help and Support Center/Communities instead of the newsreader in Vista Mail.
"Beck" wrote in message

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You might want to use the Vista Mail newsreader instead of the web-based reader. That is what is causing your multiple posts. It is happening to a lot of people.
Ah I was wondering what was going on, I thought there was a server problem or something.

The problem was the partition needed to be set active (which is as far as I'm concerned garbage). However now that its set active, its installing. Which means I'll probably need to spend time recovering my GRUB bootloader afterwards.
"crossmr" wrote:

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

Glad you got it fixed.
"crossmr" wrote in message

The problem was the partition needed to be set active (which is as far as I'm concerned garbage). However now that its set active, its installing. Which means I'll probably need to spend time recovering my GRUB bootloader afterwards.
"crossmr" wrote:
So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.