installing windows 7 starter - partition problem

[ant2009]

Hello

HP Mini 210

I am trying to install windows starter 7.

Currently I have installed fedora 14 xfce. And I have allocated 24 GB NTFS for hard disk for the windows partition.

My current partitions are as follows:

/dev/sda2              97G  4.9G   91G   6% /
tmpfs                 494M   92K  494M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   68M  392M  15% /boot
/dev/sda5             169G   26G  135G  16% /home

I have created a boot USD to install windows starter 7.

When the computer boots into the windows setup and I selected the partition I want to install windows on. I get the following message:

"Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition."

This is setup displaying all my partitions:

Disk 0	Partition 1	500MB	0	Primary
Disk 0	Partition 2	97.7GB	0	Primary
Disk 0	Partition 3	4GB	0	Primary
Disk 0	Partition 4	171.3GB	0	Logical
Disk 0	Partition 5	24.6GB	24.5	Logical <-- Trying install on this partition NTFS

I have also tried to delete the partition in setup and create a new one. And also tried to format the partition.

However, I still get the same error message.

Many thanks for any advice,

 

[KSoD]

The problem is simple. Win7 can only be installed to a Primary Partition. You are trying to install it to a Logical Partition. Will never work. You must create a new Primary Partition for Win7 then it will work.