Unable to install Rollback Rx 9.1 in VMware

[carfal]

Originally Posted by salvor

Support responded quickly to my ticket, and suggested that I try increasing the disk size, and that fixed the problem.

The problem was caused by having less than 128 GB free space during installation.

IMHO, the installer should check for this before at the beginning of installation (before writing to HD) in the next release of Rollback Rx. The cryptic error message during boot resulted in avoidable lost time & frustration.

My final VMware Player 3.1.3 setup is:

160 GB virtual disk (100 MB System Reserved, 159.9 C
Actual size of .vmdk is about 37 GB (no need to preallocate disk space.)

My "system reserved" partition was restored from backup before installing Rollback Rx. So I'm assuming installation will be smooth as long as there's more than 128 GB free space during installation on a default Windows 7 partition setup.

Happy holidays!

I'm not so sure that the problem was not enough free disk space. I've installed many times a trial version of Rollback on only a 50Gb virtual drive (dynamically expanding) without problems. The difference is i've always removed the "system reserved partition" during the Windows setup. Wonder if that matters? Also, i use VMWare Workstation.

I'll have to test with "system reserved partition" on the weekend and report back.

[Jimmy]

Originally Posted by Owl

And to think my first hard drive was 20Mb!

yeah, and probably costs as much as 5 1-terabyte drives today