Comments on: Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

By: Tristram

Tristram — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:22:34 +0000

Ace, I'm also having this problem. The weird thing is, I know my HD is partitioned, but I can't see them in the partition manager. Dell and Windows tech support are no help. At this point, all I can say is I'm never buying a Dell again.

By: Ace

Ace — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:45:55 +0000

Glad you fixed it. So repartitioning it did the trick?

By: grant

grant — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:04:30 +0000

I wasnt sure if this was the fix or not, but this post finally gave me motivation to take back my hdd and blow it completely. Thankfully I have a 500 GiB hdd with federal on it as well. Worked like a champ on my m1330.
Thanks!

By: Ace

Ace — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:40:27 +0000

@jmsnams:
Yeah, be sure to let us know whether and how you solved this issue. Still isn't very clear to me what causes this.

Good luck,
Ace

By: jmsnams

jmsnams — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:16:07 +0000

Wow… and I thought I was the only one! I have been working on an Inspirion 1525 for a friend of mine and ran into a brick wall w/ this. Her daughter somehow removed the operating system… I will try all of your suggestions and see if any of them work. I'll let you know how it goes…

By: pedromedrano

pedromedrano — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:05 +0000

I have encountered the same error message trying reinstall vista home premium (sp1) on my dell inspiron 1525. I tried removing the dell media direct partition as well with no luck ecountering an error message saying that i could not delete a volume containing a system partition. I even went into diskpart.exe marked volume F: (which is media direct) as inactive an attempted to delete it with still no luck. I tried overriding with no luck either. I've searched everywhere and and read pages from microssoft none helping me with my problem

By: hussam

hussam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:21:43 +0000

no problem,, thank u for giving me time

By: Ace

Ace — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:51 +0000

hussam,

I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you very much, I'm glad you were able to
solve it though!

Kind regards,
Ace

By: hussam

hussam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:58:25 +0000

i found the solution
BY MY SELF
i cant be any happier

By: hussam

hussam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:21:43 +0000

no problem,, thank u for giving me time