This is really really driving me up the wall!!!! Firstly, this is a genuine gold hologramed purchased windows vista ultimate 64bit oem that i am geting this error on EVERY time i try to install. Here is the message i get after about 10 secs of the grey page coming on and windows starts to load files: WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER WINDOWS HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM COMMUNICATING WITH A DEVICE CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER. THIS ERROR CAN BE CAUSED BY UNPLUGGING A REMOVEABLE STORAGE DEVICE SUCH AS AN EXTERNAL USB DEVICE WHILST THE DEVICE IS IN USE, OR BY FAULTY HARDWARE SUCH AS A HARD DRIVE OR CD ROM THAT IS FAILING. MAKE SURE ANY REMOVEABLE STORAGE IS PROPERLY CONNECTED AND THEN RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. IF YOU CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THIS ERROR MESSAGE, CONTACT THE HARDWARE MANUFACTURER. STATUS: 0xc00000e9 info: AN UNEXPECTED I/0 ERROR HAS OCCURED. Now, i have one 120gb sata drive with one partition on it, 1 usb mouse, 1 keyboard, and i dvd writer. That is all i have connected.... none of it gets disconnected, none of it is faulty....... so why wont vista install? Athlon x2 4200 asus a8n motherboard 4x ddr400 512mb = 2gb ram xfx geforce 8800 gtx soundblaster audigy 2 zs logitech mx laser mouse microsoft multimedia keyboard liteon dual layer dvd writer 120gb diamond maxtor sata drive Please help, ive just spent like £140 on this and it wont install - not happy like.
