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Windows 7 setup cannot detect system file or partition.

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Jayson

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I made a partition using GParted on the same drive that XP is on, I made it 20 Gb, from what I gather that is enough space. I only want the OS there since I have other drives for storing files. Even if I format the drive right in the Windows 7 setup, it still refuses to install due to no system file. I've looked around Google and I could not find a solution, maybe didn't look hard enough.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3950/partitionl.jpg

As you can see, L: is right on the system drive, but it does nothing.
 
Does it show as a logical drive or primary partition?

Me thinks it would need to be a primary partition for W7 install...?


 
Attempted on different partitions all night, and this is the message I got on every single one, "Setpu wa unable to create a system partition or locate an existing system partition.". I'm tired and frustrated and no idea how fix this. In that time I downloded another on another PC and burned that to another brand of media and nothing.
 
chop a little over 200MB off the partition you created. W7 wants to make a 200MB partition for something it does. If it can't make this it won't install.
 
i had a similar problem with both win7 & vista

solution was to unplug all my other hard drives except for the main one (which the OS was going to be installed on).
i am still surprised this worked.

I am NOT running RAID.
 
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