Re: PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

how would I check that?

XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

Ok I have asked this question before but the thread got lost so if a Mod wants to merge please feel welcome but I really need some help

So here I go

I brought a Samsung spinpoint SATA II HD and I can get XP to install great but Vista wont I have tryed loads of different Vista disc's and nothing, I have checked that my PC can handle Vista and it can easily.

What happens I can get to the part where the files expand when doing a fresh install and then nothing, if I install it over XP it freezes right at the end.

Any ideas would be great

Re: XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

Darth it is possibly your downloaded Vista burned to disks?

Re: XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

darth seriously were u get your disks i got mine from torrents (i have key so in my eyes not illegal) if u want i could give link to microsoft vista sp1 integrated msdn disk md4 and sha1 matched maybe bad disk integrated eth0 crap

Re: XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

Any OS install bombing out is normally one of two things...

One the disk is corrupt,scratched,dodgy
or
There's a problem with a device driver (I had this one when my GFX card wasn;t seated properly in it's AGP slot)

Check the log as it should point out to what's the problem...

Kymmy

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Re: XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

I dont see why that would cause a problem considering I can install XP

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Burn the DVD on the slowest possible setting and try again. I have problems for some reason reading DVD's that are burnt faster than 2.4x

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

anyone got any ideas I tryed today and I got to 7% expanding files and that took 45 minutes

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Don't know what hardware you've got but try stripping it to minimum. One stick ram, optical drive and harddisk plus graphics card.
Try an install with the absolute minimum of hardware first then add any extras later.

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

not sure if this has been said but it could be a heat problem if it gets so far then crashes but also it then wouldn't install xp fine would it oh i'm, an idiot as suggested above take everything out that is not needed for windows to install and also what is the whole spec of the machine.

Re: XP Installs Fine but Vista wont
 

There was an OR in that general statement ;)

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

is it an sata dvd you are using?

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

YEP matey its a sata dvd drive

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

still not working darth