Not enough space are you serious??

djjamieg said:

I know this I've tried everything. Could it be because it's not a C pathname on the drive?

But will give it a go 2moz and post back my findings.

Thanks anyway

YES, YES YES,
If the system reserve partition is being seen as the C:, W7 will try to install there. Thats what Barefoot was getting at. The system reserved suppose to not impede this but because you tried to name things???????????? maybe. With my install all I did was allocate 80GB of the 90GB available. No format, and let it go.

I recently used my W7 disk to align a SSD for an XP install. The W7 disk created the system reserve partition here as well. The XP install disk listed the reserve partition as C:, OS would not install. So, I just deleted the reserve partition with the XP disk. Reboot and the larger partition I had created became the C:. Boom OS install complete.
Now W7 needs the reserve partition so you cannot just delete it for a W7 install.

So secure erase the disk, with W7 disk, start process. When the partition part comes up select new, create a 60GB partition, thats it no format see if install occurs.

Funny,
I'm composing yes, yes, yes and you're composing solved.
congrats

OS install 101, keep it simple. 1 disk to install and 1 place to install it.

senoir moment lol