Installing Vista [Hard Drive]

First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I
was wondering if anyone can help.

I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk
up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems
installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)

I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen
and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory
files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?

Thanks
Chris

Hi,

You might want to read the suggestions here on VMWare's forum:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...19960&start=15

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"kicken18" <kicken18 AT hotmail DOTTY com> wrote in message
news:826C675E-B6D5-4FE0-BC67-D280010520A0@microsoft.com...

> First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but
> I
> was wondering if anyone can help.
>
> I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk
> up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems
> installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
>
> I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next
> screen
> and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory
> files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
>
> Thanks
> Chris

I had a similar problem and tried lots of things to get around it. I had
given up then stumbled across a site saying that Vista likes a minimum of
20Gig hard disk so created the machine with vhd of 20Gb instead of the
default 16Gb and it worked first time. Don't know whether it was a fluke but
at least Vista is now running.

"kicken18" wrote:

> First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I
> was wondering if anyone can help.
>
> I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk
> up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems
> installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
>
> I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen
> and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory
> files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
>
> Thanks
> Chris

It should have installed on 16GB, but at least its working.

"Lucas HN" <Lucas HN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7FED5D6E-AE22-4B7E-9A93-AC3FA7192972@microsoft.com...

>I had a similar problem and tried lots of things to get around it. I had
> given up then stumbled across a site saying that Vista likes a minimum of
> 20Gig hard disk so created the machine with vhd of 20Gb instead of the
> default 16Gb and it worked first time. Don't know whether it was a fluke
> but
> at least Vista is now running.
>
> "kicken18" wrote:
>