HI, I can't force setup to install Windows 8 on my prepared partition.
It's 2nd primary nonactive partition on internal HD formatted as NTFS with default cluster, 26GB big.
Everything looks meeting system requirements tho setup refuses to continue.
I get up to the setup type dialog, choose CUSTOM (as I don't want to upgrade from Seven but rather to install as secondary OS), on custom partition chooser I select the desired partition. Clicking on next I get the message complaining that Setup can't install Windows 8 on that partition, and referring to see some log file, which I however don't have an idea where located. I'm already having Wn7 on first partition which installed flawlessly so I don't suppose there's some hw requirements not fulfilled.
Anyone can help to resolve the problem?
My internal HD starting layout is following:
partition 1 (/dev/sda1): Primary Active Bootable NTFS Windows 7 64GB
partition 2 (/dev/sda2): Primary NTFS empty 26GB <=== here I want to install Win8
partition 3 (/dev/sda3): Primary Bootable ext4fs Linux 20GB
....
I have performed a thorough surface test recently which didnot find any surface error on that drive.
It's 2nd primary nonactive partition on internal HD formatted as NTFS with default cluster, 26GB big.
Everything looks meeting system requirements tho setup refuses to continue.
I get up to the setup type dialog, choose CUSTOM (as I don't want to upgrade from Seven but rather to install as secondary OS), on custom partition chooser I select the desired partition. Clicking on next I get the message complaining that Setup can't install Windows 8 on that partition, and referring to see some log file, which I however don't have an idea where located. I'm already having Wn7 on first partition which installed flawlessly so I don't suppose there's some hw requirements not fulfilled.
Anyone can help to resolve the problem?
My internal HD starting layout is following:
partition 1 (/dev/sda1): Primary Active Bootable NTFS Windows 7 64GB
partition 2 (/dev/sda2): Primary NTFS empty 26GB <=== here I want to install Win8
partition 3 (/dev/sda3): Primary Bootable ext4fs Linux 20GB
....
I have performed a thorough surface test recently which didnot find any surface error on that drive.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64bit
- Computer type
- Laptop