Erased Hd And Cant Create Partition
Feb 6, 2009
i just got a new comp and i had vista installed and i made a xp partition but it was buggy and i couldnt boot into both so i figured id do a clean install so i completely erased my hd from dos at vista install screen and now i have 1 700g drive that says disk 0 unallocated space and when i click next i get a error saying.
Windows could not create a partition on disc 0 This error occured while preparing the systems volume files. error 0x80042558. i cant create a new partition either i get new message. so right now ive got a new comp with no OS and a 700 gig free HD that i cant install vista on. i havent tried xp yet trying it tomrow or whenever i get the disk but idk what to do.
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Dec 26, 2007
I'm trying to partition drive C but it won't let me. New laptop is Toshiba Satellite and had the store configure it for me since I'm new to Vista.
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2. From the unallocated space, I create a new simple volume. It goes through the Wizard, but then I get the following error message: "The attempted operation is invalid. Either the parameters specified are invalid or the operation cannot be completed on the selected object."
3. The contour of the unallocated space is highlighted in black instead of green. Is that an indication of something? And shouldn't it say: Free space instead of unallocated? Additional info:.....
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