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Help Installing Windows Vista Premium

  • 29-03-2009 5:09pm
    #1
    bookworm192398
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭


    OK, I'm trying to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista Premium on my laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile, previous operating system Ubuntu 8.10) and on the partitioning page I get two errors, one that the partition needs to be converted to NTFS format and another that says the partition needs to bigger size. I attempted to fix the latter problem by deleting one partition to free up some space for another but that didn't work and I ended up losing Ubuntu as well. If anyone could give me any ideas of what to do now I'd be very grateful. Thanks.


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  • #2
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    bookworm192398 wrote: »
    OK, I'm trying to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista Premium on my laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile, previous operating system Ubuntu 8.10) and on the partitioning page I get two errors, one that the partition needs to be converted to NTFS format and another that says the partition needs to bigger size. I attempted to fix the latter problem by deleting one partition to free up some space for another but that didn't work and I ended up losing Ubuntu as well. If anyone could give me any ideas of what to do now I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

    so what's your total partition size now?


  • #3
    bookworm192398
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭bookworm192398


    I don't have the laptop with me at the moment but there's two, primary 3.2GB and logical 138/148GB, I can't remember specifically.


  • #4
    tpotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭tpotter


    I think I recall having a similar problem once, where the Windows XP installer wouldn't recognize my ext3 partitions and wouldn't let me reformat them.

    To solve this, I used SysRescue, which is a Linux Live CD, and gParted to delete the partitions all together. I think I just left it as one unpartitioned block, but I might have also created a fat32 partition. Can't remeber which, but both are possible using gParted and I think this solved the problem.

    This might be worth a try if you are planning on ONLY having Vista on it.


  • #5
    bookworm192398
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭bookworm192398


    OK, been really busy these past few weeks so I've only just got round to trying this and it worked, so thanks very much!:)


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