Ugh. My laptop freaked out, right? So, I reinstall windows. Try to anyway, there's apparently not enough space on my 73g harddrive for vista. So, I throw it in a case, plug it into my desktop to see if I can mess with it there. Open up disk management, and scroll to my disk. Disk 7 as it were. What shows up is attached. When I try to make a partition in that Free Space, no matter the size, it tells me there there's not enough space. Help please.
You can format it, i recommend erasing the entire disk, Not quick format, a REAL format. Afterwards, try making a fresh partition.
Actually, it wouldn't let me format the whole drive, dunno why. However, I fixed it. I'm an idiot. I deleted the 'Free Space' segment and turned it into unallocated space.
Make sure what ever system your installing Vista on has plenty of extra RAM as well because it uses a LOT more than other operating systems. For example if you have just enough RAM to run all your programs and stuff on your old operating system your gonna need more RAM to be able to run Vista unless you have plenty extra to run it too. I'm not sure if its because my computer was built for Vista or not but it wouldn't let me Install an older windows operating system on it. I tried to install XP on it once and it wouldn't let me.
I'm not sure if you're talking about about my laptop or the computer I tried fixing things with. If you mean my laptop, it's got 2g of RAM as well as a not bad processor. Anyways, it's not Vista, it's Windows 7. If you mean my desktop, it's a kickass rig. I know a fair bit about computers, it's just I've never run into this issue before, nor ever heard of it.
Sorry, I assumed you were trying to install vista because of this. My bad. Actually I like Vista, I've had no problems at all for over a year now with it. You just got to know how to use it and tweak it to your system and liking. Although it may be running so well for me partly because my system was built for having Vista to run on it.
/facepalm My bad. My desktop is on vista, but heavily modified. I've had little to no problems really once I disabled UAC
Nah, my main issue has been compatibility. Doesn't work with half the programs out there. Unfixable. Which is why they moved to Windows 7 which I like but will be avoiding until I'm sure nothing much has changed.
