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I was trying to install Vista onto a spare partition yesterday, and the installer refused to use the partition. I deleted it, formatted it, tried again, no go. Deleted it, made it bigger, repeat, no go. I was using the 3rd partition on the drive (still a primary though) but I was wondering if Vista requires itself to be on the first partition? Any ideas?

(Partition sizes I tried using were 50GB and 90GB)
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It needs to be on the first partition on any drive. I had this problem specifically with beta2, and i just installed my current version on its own drive. also, be wary when installing it with any linux distro, as vista will take over your bootloader.
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It needs to be on the first partition on any drive.
Just out of curiosity, do you know why this is?
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microsoft hates competition. duh.

I really don't know the actual reason for it. I'm guessing some security thing. (First partition = Vista's security blanket?)
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windows has always required being the first primary partition on the first drive

in relation to linux - windows always wipes the MBR - thats why you usually install it first
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I actually haven't run into that. I installed XP on a slave drive with Gentoo on the other. I had to re-install the boot loader, but it worked alright.
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windows has always required being the first primary partition on the first drive
May I present my counter-argument:
jimmy@tensai ~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
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Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14         263     2008125   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3             264        6489    50010345    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4            6490       60801   436261140    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            6490       12715    50010313+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           12716       60801   386250763+   7  HPFS/NTFS
WInXP ended up on hda3 because it requires a primary partition. hda5 houses FC6 (/dev/hdc1 has Kubuntu as well, though I'll probably just move it to hdc2 so I can put Vista on hdc1 )
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thats fine because your chainlaoding windows fron GRUB. What i meant is that if there is no GRUB windows has to be the first on the first
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thats fine because your chainlaoding windows fron GRUB. What i meant is that if there is no GRUB windows has to be the first on the first
I guess it doesn't always have to be the first partition of the first drive then, eh?

Anyways, I moved Kubuntu to another partition and tried installing Vista again with no success, so I'm just giving up on it. If it doesn't like being on Disk 0 Partition 1, well, too bad for me...
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cant you just Vmware vista? from kubuntu?
on my pc i got Ubuntu which is VMWaring Win2k so i can still do VB and MS Access
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