installing vista hard drive

First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
Thanks Chris

Hi,
You might want to read the suggestions here on VMWare's forum: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=19960&start=15
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"kicken18" <kicken18 AT hotmail DOTTY com> wrote in message

First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
Thanks Chris

I had a similar problem and tried lots of things to get around it. I had given up then stumbled across a site saying that Vista likes a minimum of 20Gig hard disk so created the machine with vhd of 20Gb instead of the default 16Gb and it worked first time. Don't know whether it was a fluke but at least Vista is now running.
"kicken18" wrote:

First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
Thanks Chris

It should have installed on 16GB, but at least its working.
"Lucas HN" <Lucas HN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

I had a similar problem and tried lots of things to get around it. I had given up then stumbled across a site saying that Vista likes a minimum of 20Gig hard disk so created the machine with vhd of 20Gb instead of the default 16Gb and it worked first time. Don't know whether it was a fluke but at least Vista is now running.
"kicken18" wrote:
First of all, I am using VMWare which must be a source of the problem, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
I go to install Vista, I enter code, I format my partion which vista picsk up fine (its a virtual hard disk in VMware but ive never had problems installing XP, server 2003 and linux on VMware)
I then select the partion after formatting and it goes on to the next screen and erros saying "windows cannot find a ahrd drive sutible to put tempory files" of something along those lines. Anyone no a solution to this?
Thanks Chris