Please help Vista stuck in reboot loop

[west72]

I am trying to install Vista 5270 64bit on my system. I have 2 200 gig sata drives striped together in a raid. I have partitioned off 100 gig for my vista install, after many attempts I got the install to recognise the drive. The problem now is once Vista had run though the install and rebooted, I get the windows vista loading screen and the bar gets a quarter of the way across the screen and then the computer reboots. It then continues to do this until I turn off the computer.

On the other partition I have a new install of Windows XP 32 bit which runs fine.

Anyone have any ideas on this as it’s starting to become a major headache just trying to install this, let along use it.

[prathapml]

Which RAID is yours?

Some raid controllers are software-based & so need drivers.

[west72]

I managed to find a fix to the problem. I copied the x64 via raid drivers to the root of a floppy and loaded these in at the start of the install, this makes the drive appear in the drive list on the install. Then load the drivers in again and it works fine.

[nedge2k]

this can also happen if you try to install to a usb hdd. even if your machine supports usb boot, it will just stick in the loop. im told drivers will fix this but i've never seen any that do. same thing happens with XP and unfortunately there is no fix...to my knowledge anyway (an i spent fkin ages looking into it )