Can't reinstall VIsta

Hi all...

I am unable to reinstall Vista on my machine, The error I get is "Windows
is unable to Find a System Volume that meets its criteria for installation."
This is a drive that I had the Vista x64 installed on previously, tried to
do repair that failed, thus, opted to de a reinstall. So...what does this
mean? I have not encountered this error before, and have done a delete and
reformat of the drive, and yet still get the same error. I have tried to do
install to another drive of the same type and get the same error.

Here are my system specs:
Processor
2.00 gigahertz AMD 64 Opteron's (2 installed)
Main Circuit Board
Tyan Tiger K8WE
Memory Modules
2 GB RAM

The drives are SATA 80 GB, so I think they should be more than sufficient
for a Vista install. What can I do at this point to get Vista reinstalled?
I really need to get this machine up and running.

Jan

Sorry, please excuse the double post....didn't think it went through the
first time.

Jan

"Jan " <no lid> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi all...
>
> I am unable to reinstall Vista on my machine, The error I get is "Windows
> is unable to Find a System Volume that meets its criteria for
> installation." This is a drive that I had the Vista x64 installed on
> previously, tried to do repair that failed, thus, opted to de a reinstall.
> So...what does this mean? I have not encountered this error before, and
> have done a delete and reformat of the drive, and yet still get the same
> error. I have tried to do install to another drive of the same type and
> get the same error.
>
> Here are my system specs:
> Processor
> 2.00 gigahertz AMD 64 Opteron's (2 installed)
> Main Circuit Board
> Tyan Tiger K8WE
> Memory Modules
> 2 GB RAM
>
> The drives are SATA 80 GB, so I think they should be more than sufficient
> for a Vista install. What can I do at this point to get Vista
> reinstalled? I really need to get this machine up and running.
>
> Jan
>
>
>

Jan :\);759840 Wrote:
>
>
> "Windows
> is unable to Find a System Volume that meets its criteria for
> installation."

*_If_you_have_a_SATA_drive_load_the_driver_from_a_ bootable_thumbdrive_or_usb_floppy_-otherwise_Vista_will_not_see_it._*

It has to be formated to NTFS, and a minimum size (15000 MB)- If you
partitioned your drive make sure the partition is big enough.


The easiest way to reinstall- is to delete ALL partitions-then install
Vista.


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