won t install laptop

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

Too stupid for a beta OS.
When you help someone like this they will just be back in a few more days with more stupid question.
This group is being flooded with moronic questions: How do I get a product key Where do I get a driver for xyz hardware Won't install on my lapotop Won't install on my computer circa 1968 My crappy video card won't run aero glass (the sky is falling) My crappy sound card doesn't work Can't figure out how to activate Will my 16 bit program from 1992 run on Vista How long can I use Vista Beta How do I dual boot I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET XP BACK cannot delete windows.old file
Ignore them, children should only listen to adult conversations, not be incouraged to join in.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:21:02 -0700, crossmr wrote:

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

As pointed out in the other thread jackass, the problem was the harddrive partition wasn't set active. It wasn't set active on my desktop either, but it was causing an issue on the laptop. You might want to buy a clue before you continue to post.
"2" wrote:

Too stupid for a beta OS.
When you help someone like this they will just be back in a few more days with more stupid question.
This group is being flooded with moronic questions: How do I get a product key Where do I get a driver for xyz hardware Won't install on my lapotop Won't install on my computer circa 1968 My crappy video card won't run aero glass (the sky is falling) My crappy sound card doesn't work Can't figure out how to activate Will my 16 bit program from 1992 run on Vista How long can I use Vista Beta How do I dual boot I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET XP BACK cannot delete windows.old file
Ignore them, children should only listen to adult conversations, not be incouraged to join in.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:21:02 -0700, crossmr crossmr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

Just a driveby troll. Maybe even a bot. He will not read your reply. Just Block Sender under Messages (if using Vista Mail or OE).
"crossmr" wrote in message

As pointed out in the other thread jackass, the problem was the harddrive partition wasn't set active. It wasn't set active on my desktop either, but it was causing an issue on the laptop. You might want to buy a clue before you continue to post.
"2" wrote:
Too stupid for a beta OS.
When you help someone like this they will just be back in a few more days with more stupid question.
This group is being flooded with moronic questions: How do I get a product key Where do I get a driver for xyz hardware Won't install on my lapotop Won't install on my computer circa 1968 My crappy video card won't run aero glass (the sky is falling) My crappy sound card doesn't work Can't figure out how to activate Will my 16 bit program from 1992 run on Vista How long can I use Vista Beta How do I dual boot I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET XP BACK cannot delete windows.old file
Ignore them, children should only listen to adult conversations, not be incouraged to join in.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:21:02 -0700, crossmr crossmr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.

So I have a Toshiba Tecra A3. 40 GB HD which I've currently allocated 17.5 GB for Vista. The "capable" requirements off the website don't list a minimum hard drive space, yet I've allocated this space and formatted it and the install complains: Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
Anyone know whats going on here? Some way I can get it to install. I installed it on my desktop as a triple boot and I only allocated around 20 GB there for it to install. If there WAS a limit it should have been listed and expressed before I formatted my laptop and downloaded 500 MB worth of updates and spent 2 hours getting the other partition nice and tidy.