lifeinanalog

The hard drive I had in the machine was a blank hard drive. Vista partitioned it for me so it was NTFS. I tried one other thing to see if I can get it to install. I swapped out DVD-Roms (Thinking that was the issue), then I installed XP Pro. SP2 onto the hard disk so that I could do an upgrade. I got a prompt at the start about missing drivers, but it wasn't a big deal. After that the install went fine. However, when It rebooted it showed me a screen that had the copyright and the windows loading bar. The screen had no logo and it just sat there for at least 4 hours. I gave it sometime. So I guess it's best to say Vista will not work on this machine (even though the advisor said it would).

I recently downloaded the Beta 2 ISO from microsoft and burnt it to a disc (both 4x and 2.4x). When I try to install Vista onto my computer the Installer goes through ALL of the steps (copying files, expanding..etc) and on the last step of install I get an error: "An error occurred while preparing Windows Setup to boot into the next stage of Setup." When I click OK, it removes Vista and I start from square One. Does anyone have ANY clue why the installer continues to do this? I'm installing this on a machine with 1.8ghz intel processor, 1gig ram, and a radeon 9800 pro. The Hard drive is blank and has no other partitions. Thanks!