possible you had a glitch during the format ? Try booting with rescue CD, UBCD, or any other type of boot system and then delete whatever partition information is there, starting FRESH again ...
_____ From: Michael A. Berryman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Server 2008 Install issue Hi folks, I'm trying to install Windows Server 2008 on a Dell 600SC that was running Windows 2003 Server. I loaded the DVD, put in the product Key and told it to delete the partition on the disk because I wanted to start clean and not upgrade. Anyway, it wiped off the old partition and allowed me to format the drive (which only took about 1 minutes, 80 GB drive, so I am skeptical it really formatted it), but when I select that drive to install on (creating a new partition is not one of the options, it is greyed out, the only option to select when I highlight the drive is next) it starts to copy files and give me a "Windows could not prepare the partition selected for installation" error message and can't go forward. Anyone seen this? Do I need to create and format the partition another way? Any advice? Thanks, Mike No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1489 - Release Date: 6/7/2008 11:17 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
