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i Ordered the DVD stright from microsofts website, i formatted the entire drive in windows before i tried installing it (NTFS) and once while i was attempting to intsall it using the format option in the setup (NTFS)

Hey! so heres the deal, i have the vista beta 2 dvd from microsoft, i am tryin to install the 32 bit version my computer consists of an SATA raid 0 with win xp on it and then i have 2 western digial 120gb drives on a regular IDE channel i am trying to install vista to 1 of the 120gb drives so that i can have xp and vista, but if vista messes up it wont affect my xp install so before i even attempt to go into the set up i change the boot priority from my SATA raid to the 120gb drive i plan to install vista on, then i reboot and it boots from the DVD and i start going throuh the set up and i select clean install, then the drive i want to put it on (which is formatted NTFS) after i select the drive and hit next it goes to the next screen and then gives me this error message "an error occured while prepairing windows setup to into the next stage of setup" this error is so vauge that i have no idea what could be going wrong any ideas? thanks in advance