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Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:37:35 -0000

I'm glad you found a solution, Micho. Thanks for sharing :-). Repartitioning usually does it, weird enough.

Gr,
Ace

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Micho — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:21:17 -0000

Hi, just wanted to let you all know that I also had this error when trying to install Windows 7 over a corrupted Vista installation; the problem must have been all the partitions that came in my Dell Inspiron laptop. Long story short: a bootable Gparted live USB fixed the issue. I deleted all the partitions and now I'm golden!

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Tristram — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:22:34 -0000

Ace, I'm also having this problem. The weird thing is, I know my HD is partitioned, but I can't see them in the partition manager. Dell and Windows tech support are no help. At this point, all I can say is I'm never buying a Dell again.

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:45:55 -0000

Glad you fixed it. So repartitioning it did the trick?

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

grant — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:04:30 -0000

I wasnt sure if this was the fix or not, but this post finally gave me motivation to take back my hdd and blow it completely. Thankfully I have a 500 GiB hdd with federal on it as well. Worked like a champ on my m1330.
Thanks!

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:40:27 -0000

@jmsnams:
Yeah, be sure to let us know whether and how you solved this issue. Still isn't very clear to me what causes this.

Good luck,
Ace

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

jmsnams — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:16:07 -0000

Wow... and I thought I was the only one! I have been working on an Inspirion 1525 for a friend of mine and ran into a brick wall w/ this. Her daughter somehow removed the operating system... I will try all of your suggestions and see if any of them work. I'll let you know how it goes...

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

pedromedrano — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:27:05 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:21:43 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:34:51 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:58:25 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:41:16 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:34:08 -0000

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.

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:24:07 -0000

This link is what you are talking about http://gparted.sourceforge....
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???

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:19:13 -0000

Hussam,

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

I hope that helps you!

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:08:18 -0000

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??

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:04:08 -0000

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.

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

hussam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:59:13 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Piotr — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:54:16 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

kevin — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:42:33 -0000

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 :)

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

JK — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:14:03 -0000

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!

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Uri Lifshitz — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:37:31 -0000

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/...
* I tried to install windows vista with SP1 included, it has no affect on the problem.

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Rick Johnson — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:34:46 -0000

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

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

Alex — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:20:22 -0000

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,

Re: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

NuKiNuKe — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:12:27 -0000

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.