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| I have 2 hard drives. One has XP, and the other is blank. When I try to install Vista RC1 on my second hard drive, the files are copied to the computer, but when it restarts my computer, it freezes when it gets to the screen with the loading screen that has the green bar and the copyright info. I have tried installing it from XP, and I tried booting from the disk. I even tried mounting it onto a virtual drive. Nothing worked.
The same thing happened when I tried to install Beta 2.
UPDATE: I tried to reboot in safe mode, and it froze after it loaded disk.sys |
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| Try unpluggin the xp hard drive and setting the 2nd one to master. And installing from there. Should do the trick.
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| a) I tried that when I was installing Beta 2
b) Wouldn't that make it so I couldn't dual boot? |
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| | I tried doing an upgrade on my hard drive with XP, and the same thing happened. |
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| Boy I must be lucky I have installed Vista 5 different times and every time went without a glitch and this last time took aboout 40 minutes total to final startup. Maybe its a bad download. Due you allow for the install to check for updated system info or files in the beginning of the install someone else had that issue and that solved the problem. Due clean install and all mine have been from within XP to a separete 20 gig hd.
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| I've already downloaded it twice. It must be something with my computer. My CPU sucks, so it might be that.
Here's what I got:
Computer:
Operating System -- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack -- Service Pack 2
DirectX -- 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type -- AMD Athlon XP, 1666 MHz 2000+
Motherboard Name -- ASRock K7S8X v3
Motherboard Chipset -- SiS 746FX
System Memory -- 1024 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type -- AMI (07/11/03)
Display:
Video Adapter -- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (128 MB)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter -- SiS 7012 Audio Device
Storage:
IDE Controller -- SiS PCI IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller -- SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Disk Drive -- SAMSUNG SP1213N (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive -- WDC WD400BB-00GFA0 (37 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive -- HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B
SMART Hard Disks Status -- OK
Network:
Network Adapter -- Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC |
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| | I have had this same problem with Vista since the last 3 or 4 builds. The upgrade option does it every time I try to install it. The only way I've found to get around it is by just creating another partition on my hard drive, and doing a clean install. |
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| | i have same problem to. and whats funy is that i also have an asrock K7S8X i am now wondering is there a problem with our motherboards. because i have tried beta1, 2, and the new rc1 my processer is an athlon xp 2400 running 512mb pc2700 i had 1.5gigs but for some reason my pc would lockup when i would had my extra vicking 512mb pc2700 x 2 i have 2 hardrives, 1 is an 80gig and the other is a 250gig and running an ati x1600 pro 512mb video card the only thing i can think of is our mother boards because i have a buddy of mine who installed it on his athlon xp 2400 but he had an fx motherboard with an nvidia chipset best thing we can do is contact asrock about it. |
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| Jason (9/3/2006)
Try unpluggin the xp hard drive and setting the 2nd one to master. And installing from there. Should do the trick.
Is this a known problem with the installer? I have the same issue. The installer copies everything, updates, reboots, and gets 75% on the second green bar 'Completing' or 'Configuring' or something, then freezes and the mouse is locked up. When I reboot, it says vista cannot start, an unexpected issue occurred during installation, re-install.
I also was installing to a secondary drive with no master, but this should work, maybe a vista installer fault?
thanks.
Update: I set it to master and still the same thing. Freezes with 'Completing Installation...' DVD verified fine in windows using Vdata. Any other Ideas?
Sys Specs:
Soyo Sy-k7V Dragon +
Athon XP 2133MHz
1GB DDR2100
Radeon 9600 Pro dual head 128MB
Maxtor 40GB HDD (For testing like this, all other hdds disabled for protection)
Via chipset USB root hub
Via chipset 10/100 ethernet
PCI USB2.0 controler + firewire controller
Built-in CMI8738 surround sound
Hauppauge WinTV 849 PCI tuner
Promise FastTrak100 motherboard raid (disabled in BIOS)
D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI ethernet |
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| | I had a similar issue while installing RC1 to a HP PTGD1-LA (Grouper) mainboard recently. The installation would freeze shortly after the first set of green bars scrolled, and the green and blue background is loaded. Could see cursor, but wouldn't move. My fix: Update to latest BIOS version, using AMIFLASH.EXE and 308.rom Instalation now works appropriately.
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