Saturday, August 20, 2005
Installing Vista on VirtualPC or Blank Drives
The Release Notes for Vista specify that you can't install Vista on a "RAW" or unpartitioned and unformatted hard drive. That's exactly the kind of drive that VirtualPC creates when you set up a new OS. Fortunately, the release notes have a work around.
Setup in this release of "Longhorn" versions of Windows does not support installing to "RAW" disks (disks without a partition). To work around this issue, install the "Longhorn" version of Windows on a partitioned disk. If you must install to a RAW disk, press SHIFT+F10 to open a command prompt. Use the Diskpart utility to create a disk partition. Restart the computer after creating the partition, and start Setup again. The disk should be available for use.
That should help. The previous workaround was to pop in the Windows XP cd and create a partition with that setup routine. At least this is a tad easier. Just one of the many reasons why Windows Vista Beta 1 is not yet ready for public consumption. more...
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Originally Posted on 8/20/2005 4:54:37 PMContent source: http://www.longhornblogs.com/robert/archive/2005/07/29/14247.aspx
Setup in this release of "Longhorn" versions of Windows does not support installing to "RAW" disks (disks without a partition). To work around this issue, install the "Longhorn" version of Windows on a partitioned disk. If you must install to a RAW disk, press SHIFT+F10 to open a command prompt. Use the Diskpart utility to create a disk partition. Restart the computer after creating the partition, and start Setup again. The disk should be available for use.
That should help. The previous workaround was to pop in the Windows XP cd and create a partition with that setup routine. At least this is a tad easier. Just one of the many reasons why Windows Vista Beta 1 is not yet ready for public consumption. more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/20/2005 4:54:37 PMContent source: http://www.longhornblogs.com/robert/archive/2005/07/29/14247.aspx
