Darkman Returns
02-11-2009, 02:12 PM
I've just finished assembling a new PC with 2 Samsung F1 1TB drives; Drive 0 is brand new, Drive 1 has been used as a data drive on my existing PC using XP Pro (I just enabled it, didn't do a new format and it's been working fine).
Both drives are detected correctly by the BIOS (on a P5Q Deluxe) and show up on the Vista Setup drive selection screen. Drive 1 (previously used) shows up as Dynamic (and I'm trying to install Vista Home Premium which doesn't support Dynamic drives according to the Microsoft Technical Support site). :rolleyes:
The unused drive (Drive 0) shows up as Unformatted Space which I can turn into a Partition using the 'new' command, but I can't then format it. When I click on 'next' I get the following error: "windows is unable to find a system volume that meets criteria for installation".
Having read up on the error at the Microsoft Technical Support site it appeared I needed to use the Diskpart.exe utility to clean the disk, and then run Windows Vista Setup again.
How long will it take to 'clean' a 1TB disk, and will I need to do the same for the other (data) disk, or can I convert it from Dynamic without losing the files?
Thanks for reading.
This is a duplicate post as I had already posted this in Operating Systems before I realised there was a sub forum for Windows :doh:
Both drives are detected correctly by the BIOS (on a P5Q Deluxe) and show up on the Vista Setup drive selection screen. Drive 1 (previously used) shows up as Dynamic (and I'm trying to install Vista Home Premium which doesn't support Dynamic drives according to the Microsoft Technical Support site). :rolleyes:
The unused drive (Drive 0) shows up as Unformatted Space which I can turn into a Partition using the 'new' command, but I can't then format it. When I click on 'next' I get the following error: "windows is unable to find a system volume that meets criteria for installation".
Having read up on the error at the Microsoft Technical Support site it appeared I needed to use the Diskpart.exe utility to clean the disk, and then run Windows Vista Setup again.
How long will it take to 'clean' a 1TB disk, and will I need to do the same for the other (data) disk, or can I convert it from Dynamic without losing the files?
Thanks for reading.
This is a duplicate post as I had already posted this in Operating Systems before I realised there was a sub forum for Windows :doh: