Solved Windows 7 Pro Fail to set disk

[speedhunt3r]

Hi, I am trying to install windows 7 over my previous installation, I have deleted the disk, formatted it, tried to create a new partition, but windows says it is unable to install windows 7 on that partition. The disk is clean, no other partitions exist, and the disk is healthy. I tried testing the win 7 disk on virtualbox and it works just fine, but the setup does not like my disk I don't know why.

I have two disks

Disk 0 would have my linux, swap, and my media partition

Disk 1 is blank 320GB where I want Windows.

 

[Shootist]

All Windows versions need to copy files to the FIRST drive in the system. That is just the way it is.
If that first drive has Linux on it and formatted in whatever the Linux file system is then the Windows install can't read or write to that drive.
Not only that but from what I've seen and heard Win 7 always creates a 100MB partition on the FIRST drive in the system, a system reserve partition that holds the boot files. Again if it can't create that partition the install will fail.

 

[speedhunt3r]

All Windows versions need to copy files to the FIRST drive in the system. That is just the way it is.
If that first drive has Linux on it and formatted in whatever the Linux file system is then the Windows install can't read or write to that drive.
Not only that but from what I've seen and heard Win 7 always creates a 100MB partition on the FIRST drive in the system, a system reserve partition that holds the boot files. Again if it can't create that partition the install will fail.

Yeah I realized it would be something like that, so I just physically disconnected my first disk, than the setup ran fine. Shutdown => reconnect disk => startup. =D

 

[speedhunt3r]

I can't find the "mark thread as solved" option under thread tools... can an admin please mark it for me? or tell me how to do it, thanks!

 

[Shootist]

You are welcome