Vista installation problems...

[Vikolai]

Hi there

So a couple of days ago, my computer froze while watching a film. I tried rebooting it, and it told me one of the system files were corrupt and I'd have to insert my Windows XP CD to repair. I lost this months ago, so thought "ah to hell with it" and went out and bought a copy of Vista.

I've now formatted the hard drive, booted from the DVD, and allowed it to install. It restarts to 'complete the installation', but when it tries booting from the hard drive, it says it's encountered an error and I'll have to restart to continue installation... and this is where it loops.

The weird thing is, it will boot into safe mood, but it won't let me get anywhere as it can't complete installation in safe mode, so it... makes me restart. again.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Vikolai]

ah forgot to add. I've done a chkdsk and memory check too, and they both came up clean... anyone?

[#43 fan]

The thing that pops into my mind is that Vista either did not format the drive properly or the boot program wasn't installed properly.
Either way, I would suggest going to the hard drive manufacturer's website and downloading software that will allow you to format the drive properly (for example, Seagate's Seatools).

[Vikolai]

Actually thats a good point, the format didn't seem to take any time at all considering the size of the drive... I'll give that a try when I get home thanks!

[yeadon563]

Keep trying, it took me 4hrs of repeated tries, to install Vista Ultra.

Yeadon563

[dr_roberts49]

Just to make sure, did you check to see if you met the system requirements for Vista? Not Microsoft's, but the reality system requirements. Multi-core cpu and at least 2GB of memory.

Robert