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cesar · 1 year ago

hey i got the same thing dell's xps 1330 windows vista premium home. i got the same error message when i tried to reformat my harddrive and reinstall windows.
i'm about to try out your fix see if it works for me.
let me know if you have found anything else. i'm kinda curious .

Ace · 1 year ago

If I find anything new on the matter, I'll be sure to post it here. I hope I have shed some light on the matter. I'm glad you found your way to my site and with it -- hopefully -- a solution to your problem.

Regards,
Ace

Sabit · 1 year ago

hey, Cesar!
I got the same problem with my XPS M1530
Did you find anything?

Ace,
Nice article and I really hope that the HotFix from MS would be helpful.
I sent them request and waiting for my HotFix copy. Don't know how it works, but think it would be some kind of installation package or something. Did you try that HotFix from MS?

Thank you,

Sabit

Sabit · 1 year ago

Hey, Ace and Cesar!
guys take a look at the following link:

http://biocio.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-insta...

I followed the steps and it helped me. And finally thanks to MS Command Prompt!

Sabit

Ace · 1 year ago

Sabit,

Thanks for your research, I'll check it out soon.
I requested a hotfix from Microsoft, too, but they denied me access to it in the end, for some unknown reason. So, I actually didn't get the chance to test their fix. Your link looks interesting, though, since it allows you to allegedly fix the partition flaw that's inherent to a lot of Dell's laptop.

--Ace

knaresbrook · 1 year ago

Thanks, i used GPARTED and it removed the existing partition so that i was able to install vista enterprise.

INCFOUR · 1 year ago

Thanks Sabit, your link worked great, and was quite simple.

Raz · 1 year ago

I had the same problem, 0xE0000100, on a new rd project at work. It turned out to be the RAM. I replaced it and it fixed the problem.

Ace · 1 year ago

And the RAM can be tested using the Memory Diagnostic tool that comes with the Repair function on the Vista install disc.

Duncan · 11 months ago

I am trying to install the Windows y Beta and get the same thing. I am trying to do it in Parallels Mac.

Duncan · 11 months ago

Sorry, Windows 7.

sonicfreq · 11 months ago

I got the same error trying to install Winbloze7 beta. Microsoft said reburn the ISO at a slower speed, so I did, Hah! Same thing. Ubuntu here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

iamnothappy · 11 months ago

i get this when installing windows 7 as well, can't fix it i guess nobody knows how

NuKiNuKe · 10 months ago

I had the same problem recently. After reading the Microsoft's Knoledge Base article, I've just resized my logical partition to a size that is not a multiple of 4 GB and I was finally able to format the C drive. The only thing is that you won't be able to do this with the Windows disk management tool if you have more than 3 partitions. In that case, you can use a third party software (like Partition Magic) or backup your data, delete the partition and recreate another one.

Ace · 10 months ago

It's weird that a problem of this (apparent) magnitude hasn't been solved yet. It's not really clear what causes this error either...

NuKiNuKe · 10 months ago

They say that there is a fix included in Vista SP1 (which was already installed on my computer) but I think they forgot to mention that we have to create another installation DVD that includes the SP1... I did not try with a Vista SP1 DVD but I think this could be a solution too.

Ace · 10 months ago

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. They also forgot to mention - then - that if you own a pre-SP1 DVD, there's no easy way to slipstream SP1 onto it. It *is* possible, but you'll have to resort to third-party tools like vLite,

Rick Johnson · 7 months ago

The best fix to this problem is to format your hard drive using the exFAT type of file system.

Uri Lifshitz · 7 months ago

Hay Guys,
Just finished 4 days of struggling with this problem. my first guess was a BIOS misconfiguration or a driver mismatch with my seagate SATA HD.

here's a few things to add:
* the link provided by Sabit fixed my problem, THANKS DUDE! (again: http://biocio.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-insta...)
* I tried to install windows vista with SP1 included, it has no affect on the problem.

JK · 7 months ago

i had this problem too! it a bug with the vista installation disk. What I did to fix it was to boot up a Windows XP disk, and use that to partition the drives so that the c: is not larger than 40GB, and the rest doesn't matter, u can use any partition size.
Then, after partitioning, exit the XP installation, and restart the computer, and switch the CD to the Vista installation disk, and boot up as normal and you're good!

kevin · 7 months ago

Hi! Sadly I encountered this error when trying to reinstall both vista and installing windows 7, since this error came up my laptop has been going down the drain, I will try out your solution :)

Piotr · 6 months ago

It works !!!!! I spent days looking for solution! Thank you!

hussam · 6 months ago

i downloaded the Gparted but i need to know, do i need to have linux on my device so i can run the Gparted??

Ace · 6 months ago

It's best you just download the GParted Live CD. Pop that in and reboot. The
disc will run Linux and GParted from the disc, without the need of
installing Linux to your hard drive.

hussam · 6 months ago

but ace i downloaded in USB as a choice was written there, in fact i havent use linux ever so when i get that screen with Gparted(default seetings) and i tap to change settings i find a code but i dnt know how to change it to partition my HDD,, plzzzzzzzzzzzzz would you take me step by step to partition the HDD??

Ace · 6 months ago

Hussam,

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php has some documentation
pages related to partitioning your HDD. I advise you read through those docs
first.

I hope that helps you!

hussam · 6 months ago

This link is what you are talking about http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
i read it all but its assume that i know how to write a code to partition the HDD. see i downloaded the LIVE USB HELPER and i made the usb bootable and i extracted the GPARTED to the usb and i booted the corresponding laptop from the usb but as i said before i dont know what to do next???

Ace · 6 months ago

If you created the USB correctly you should see a menu appear at start-up,
after which you usually can just hit <Enter> on the keyboard. After a while,
a graphical user interface should pop up showing your hard drive's layout.
Then you can start partitioning. From what I'm to understand you can't start
up from USB key.

hussam · 6 months ago

no, when i boot from the usb i get this screen which has this options:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GParted live (default settings)
GParted live (to RAM. boot media can be removed later)
GParted live (safe graphic settings, vga normal)
GParted live (failsafe mode)
local operating system in harddrive (if available)
memory test using Memtest86+
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
press [tab] to edit options
automatic boot in 30 seconds
****************************************************************************************

and the 30 seconds count down will never stop and when i hit [tab] i get that code
help plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

hussam · 5 months ago

i found the solution
BY MY SELF
i cant be any happier

Ace · 5 months ago

hussam,

I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you very much, I'm glad you were able to
solve it though!

Kind regards,
Ace

hussam · 5 months ago

no problem,, thank u for giving me time :)

pedromedrano · 1 month ago

I have encountered the same error message trying reinstall vista home premium (sp1) on my dell inspiron 1525. I tried removing the dell media direct partition as well with no luck ecountering an error message saying that i could not delete a volume containing a system partition. I even went into diskpart.exe marked volume F: (which is media direct) as inactive an attempted to delete it with still no luck. I tried overriding with no luck either. I've searched everywhere and and read pages from microssoft none helping me with my problem