Installing Vista on logical partition

[CadCrazy]

Is it possible to install vista on logical partition ?
Whenever i try to do so i get error " This partition does not meet the criteria to install --------- ".

If not is there any way to convert any extended partition to primary one through vista disc ?

[hansraj]

i have dual boot in my two pc..... one has vista in logical and the other has xp !!! I didnt face this prob

[infra_red_dude]

AFAIK, Vista should install fine on a logical partition. How big is that?

[CadCrazy]

My HDD has one primary partition and rest are logical. Size of would be vista partition is 30 GB.

[infra_red_dude]

There shouldn't be any problems theoretically i guess.... is the logical partition far towards the end?

[narangz]

Have you converted the partition to NTFS?

[CadCrazy]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

There shouldn't be any problems theoretically i guess.... is the logical partition far towards the end?

Nahin, Its next to first and the only primary partition.There are other 4/5 logical partitions after this

Originally Posted by narangz

Have you converted the partition to NTFS?

Its already NTF$

[narangz]

Reformat it.

[CadCrazy]

Already done that. Deleted the partition, recreated still the same prob

[infra_red_dude]

deleted the partition??! lol.. then you could've made it primary and tried installin

[CadCrazy]

Abe it is part of extended family . I'll have to delete whole extended partition to make one primary from it ( m i right)

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ yes.. thats right..

[CadCrazy]

Yaar pura extended partition(consisting of 5 logical partitions) format karna padega. Sara ekatha kiya hua maal khatam ho jayega. Mere pass backup ke liye kuch nahin hai.
Koe meri barso ki mehnat pe pani phirane se bachao

[hansraj]

Dost does any fnd of ur s has external hard disk....... coz it looks like a full format ..i mean FDISK may sort u r problem out. But to try that u need to back up all u r stuff.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

Yaar pura extended partition(consisting of 5 logical partitions) format karna padega. Sara ekatha kiya hua maal khatam ho jayega. Mere pass backup ke liye kuch nahin hai.
Koe meri barso ki mehnat pe pani phirane se bachao

Get some one's HDD- internal or external. It's only a matter of couple of hours to copy to the new HDD & copy back to your friend's HDD.

Dual layer DVDs may also help. Get some & copy the important stuff. It's always better to backup your important data.

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On a second thought- Copy your data on your laptop using LAN. Or do you only have a laptop?

[CadCrazy]

Abe laptop mere ghar par hai bhai ke pass

[Abhishek Dwivedi]

wel am not too sure but Vista is creating problm on a SATA drives...but if using the IDE with the SATA drives attached, the installation accesses the SATA drives just find....

[narangz]

^^ Na. I've SATA & IDE HDDs. I've right now installed Vista on SATA drive. Previously it was on IDE.

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

Abe laptop mere ghar par hai bhai ke pass

Toh ley ayio this Sunday abhi xp se kaam chala lo. Nahi to kisi se HDD ley aao ya dual layer DVD.

[CadCrazy]

BTW this is not the first time i am facing this problem. Same thing also happened earlier when i was trying to install vista on my boss's laptop. When always me yaar May be because i curse vista and its vista's turn to take the revenge
Now i can without any doubt say that vista does't go well with logical partions

[narangz]

^^ I installed it once on a logical partition. Didn't get any such error.

Have you partitioned your HDD using some partitioning tools? A silly question but it might be a reason.

[CadCrazy]

Gparted , few monts back. was working fine on the same partition and now refusing.

[narangz]

Fdisk it. I perfer Fdisk, always. Vista's partition manager during installation is also good & easy too.