Vista upgrade problem

[teryakisan]

Hello, This is my first post so, please, be gentle.

I am working with a compaq presario SR1630NX
Athlon 64 3500+
512MB of PC3200 DDR


Did the "upgrade" of Vista from xp pro today. It went perfect up until the very end. As I went to log on for the first time, I clicked my username, the screen went black and the computer rebooted.

It restarted and gave me this error

get_cdinfo (F3), int 13/ 4B01 (F3), err=1, drive=F2, 1(B1), err=1, drive=b1,

That disappears and it says..

Booting GRLDR
Resetting the bootdrive...success
Turning on gate A20...Success

Then that disappears and it says...

Boot drive=80, intb/4b01 (80), err=1, drive=80, notct
get_cdinfo(f1), intb/4b01 (F1), err=1,drive=f1,

Once again that disappears and I get

ACPI
Vista loader 2.1.2

Starting cmain()...open/default... int 13/41 (80), version=AA300005,

GRUB4DOS 0.4.3 2007-03-13, memory 638k/455m codeend:0x3d7bc

Then, just for a split second I see some more references to (int_13) and the number 80, and NTLDR, but it goes by so fast I cant read it.

Then for just another second it says

Done!
fallback 1
Find --set-root /bootmgr

see the attached photo for what happens next for about 8 seconds and then reboots to start the whole process over again.


Any help at all is greatly appreciated.

[Rootstonian]

Cool, the Vista "Matrix" screen.

I've yet to do a Vista install LET ALONE an Upgrade (not for a least 12 months to see if they get the kinks worked-out).

I hope you have your original XP disk or made a backup image of your drive you can recover.

Can you boot off the Vista Upgrade disk? Have you tried the "F8" go into Safe Mode and have a look around?

[teryakisan]

I guess trying to install vista was the last straw on this hdd.

I finally gave up trying to fix it. Earlier I ran FDISK and deleted the existing partition. Resarted and created a new partition encompassing the whole hdd. Restarted again and formatted. Restarted again and ran fdisk to make the partition active and thats when fdisk started reporting that drive 1 could not be accessed.

Ran a couple of Debug routines to erase the whole hdd and sector 2. Rebooted and ran fdisk again. Still reporting that drive 1 is inaccessable.

Guess its time for a new HDD.

Gonna try to do a fresh install of Vista on the new HDD.

[teryakisan]

Get this.. I was about to give the dead hdd to a friend to massacre it when I noticed the jumper was on cable select. DUH *SMACK*! Put it on master and creating the new partition now... Still gonna try a fresh install :P

[chadh581]

I did an upgrade of vista yesterday with no problems