Finally! I got vista to install. I unplugged all other hard disks, even those
that I didn't give install drivers for, and vista installed. also, you need
to set the partition active.

"Devin Canterberry" wrote:

SOLUTION

If you have multiple hard drives installed and even one of them is not
supported by drivers either on the Windows Vista disc or on disks you have
provided Setup, then you will receive the error message about not finding a
compatible system volume.

I have a SATA RAID that Windows Vista will not recognize and an IDE drive
that Vista can actually see. I just went into BIOS and disabled my RAID and I
no longer receive the error message and I installed Vista on my IDE drive.

Now I'm having trouble finding Vista-compatible RAID drivers, but that's a
different story.

I have got this problem solved, by simply making the HD back in the boot
list in the Bios.

Mine is a Thinkpad X60s with 100GB drive. I used to exclude the HD in
the boot list, as I want to reboot from the external DVD-RW. However, it
showed me that error message.

Looks like there are a few, not one problem to bring that ugly message.
But we've seen some solutions here as well. Good luck to those of you
who is trying to get it fixed.


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ruoshui