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    Can't read drive during Vista 64-bit SP1 install on XPS M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ZachsKappler, Feb 17, 2009.

  1. ZachsKappler

    ZachsKappler Newbie

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    I got this Laptop with Ubuntu to dodge being locked into only having Vista and hit my head during many attempts to install Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit.
    First problem is I keep getting a "can't use this volume" or "can't find volume suitable for Vista" during partitioning. Got the Intel driver on a flash drive for it but not sure if I need the flash cache driver or not. Vista 32-Bit hung during setup so... Help? ($10 bet I'm the only one who has this problem)
     
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  2. azianai

    azianai Notebook Evangelist

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    your HD is formated NTFS right?
     
    azianai, Feb 17, 2009
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    MadBoris Notebook Consultant

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    Not very Linux saavy but their maybe something on the drive from the past Linux install hampering it. Sounds like you need to do a clean format.
    it's talking about the volume, not the drive.
     
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    I'll let GParted explain:

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    As you can see I want to DUAL BOOT not install over. The error for the NTFS partition is "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem! Because of this, some operations may be unavailable".
     
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  5. MadBoris

    MadBoris Notebook Consultant

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    Dual booting changes everything, that would've been good to share. ;)

    That's the problem, the partition info or boot record cannot be properly read so Windows doesn't want to, that's way third party partioners are superior when handling mixed win/linux disk environments.

    You'll get much quicker info searching Linux boards. It may not be possible with Vista, while it may be possible to do a Vista first, then linux with the linux bootloader loaded after the vista boot loader. I figure it's something to do with the MBR.
     
    MadBoris, Feb 17, 2009
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