Why won't Vista install on the C drive??

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simplemind

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This has happened twice now. I partitioned a 500 GB drive with 125 GB allocated to the C partition, and 350 GB to the D partition during the Vista 64 setup.

During the partitioning and formating, I highlighted the C partition as instructed to install Vista on, but in both cases it installed it on the larger D partition.:eek:

Arrrgh, what a waste of time! :mad: :mad:

What is going on here? :confused:
 
Only setup one partition and format during the install. Do the others with disk manager after windows is up and running.
 
Mister Natural said:
Only setup one partition and format during the install. Do the others with disk manager after windows is up and running.
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Clearly that did it! Thank You :D

Amazing, I wonder if I'm the only one who didn't notice what Vista did :eek: I might get to keep my n00bie status forever!
 
This is an old problem when you have a few drives active during install, it has nothing to do with VISTA only; XP would be the same.
 
Yep, that's why I usually tell people to only create one partition at a time, and do it during the OS setup. Then, if needed, add the rest of your drives/partitions afterwards using the MMC.
 
Thanks all!
Another question....I think Vista comes with Net Framework 2.0. Some of the aps I want to run have to use Version 1.1.x.
Will I run into problems if I install version 1.1?
 
Rebel44 said:
You should be OK because these things want 1.1 or higher:D
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One of the aps wouldn't install because it didn't see v1.1, so I loaded 1.1 to see and it installed.
The question I had was really does Net Framework behave like Java, in the sense that more than one version can peacefully coexist on the same Vista machine?
 
simplemind said:
One of the aps wouldn't install because it didn't see v1.1, so I loaded 1.1 to see and it installed.
The question I had was really does Net Framework behave like Java, in the sense that more than one version can peacefully coexist on the same Vista machine?
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I've got 1.1 installed on Vista Home Premium and haven't had a single problem that I'm aware of yet.
 
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