Hello all.
I have a problem that I don't see referenced anywhere in the forum that I could find and I am praying that someone can help me.
I just got a new box with Vista Premium already installed on a single 320g SATA drive. I figured out that I needed to shrink that drive and create a partition to install PCLinuxOS (my OS of choice) so that's what I did from the Disk Management console in Vista. I left it as a Simple Partition and did not format it at all and chose not to assign a drive letter or path to it from within Vista.
Now, when I boot to my PCLOS Live CD and start the install, I get an error telling me that there is no space to install.
Do I need to go ahead and format that new partition as NTFS and assign a drive letter for PCLOS to 'see' it? Also, are there any other pitfalls ahead that I need to be aware of? I've never used Vista before now and I've never had a SATA drive sooooo.......I'm a little nervous here.\
I have EasyBCD already installed and ready to go as soon as I can get this snag worked out.
Many thanks in advance if anyone can help me!
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I have a problem that I don't see referenced anywhere in the forum that I could find and I am praying that someone can help me.
I just got a new box with Vista Premium already installed on a single 320g SATA drive. I figured out that I needed to shrink that drive and create a partition to install PCLinuxOS (my OS of choice) so that's what I did from the Disk Management console in Vista. I left it as a Simple Partition and did not format it at all and chose not to assign a drive letter or path to it from within Vista.
Now, when I boot to my PCLOS Live CD and start the install, I get an error telling me that there is no space to install.
Do I need to go ahead and format that new partition as NTFS and assign a drive letter for PCLOS to 'see' it? Also, are there any other pitfalls ahead that I need to be aware of? I've never used Vista before now and I've never had a SATA drive sooooo.......I'm a little nervous here.\
I have EasyBCD already installed and ready to go as soon as I can get this snag worked out.
Many thanks in advance if anyone can help me!
5x5