Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

For arguments sake, try an IDE drive.

I've heard of loads of problems with SATA optical drives

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

That will need to be my next move just annoyed as my pc was upgraded and is now really powerful and I cant get bloody Vista on it

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

darth u did try my way right?

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Yeah and unfortually it didnt work but cheers buddy

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

hmm can u post a list of hardware in your pc i feel sorry for ya lol using those disks and my pc lol installed in around 20 minutes and my pc isn't all that great ther must be conflcit in hardware somewhere.

done some googleing ide drive theory ruled out people have already tried it

darth are u formatting the drive or dual booting

i suggest you click advanced then delete the drive then install

as again people say its the disk bad which is not the case as i have personally tried those disks and they are legit msdn hmm another thing got your jumper set correctly on sata and dvd drive?

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

I will get those point looked at jon and post back mate

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

When I installed vista on a system with SATA Spinpoints it wouldn't recognise the drives to install. I installed a very basic XP build and then installed Vista without any problems.

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

I tryed install XP and then Vista over the top and it install fine until the end and the installation just crashed and failed

any ideas?

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

darth can we a have a list of hardware pls maybe something is not compatible

btw tell us exactly what happens like detailed at what point etc

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

I have Gigabit MSI Mobo,Samsung spinpoint sata 2 HD GFX Nvida 7300GS not sure what dvd drive I have its a lightscribe sata one.

The problem is simple when I do a fresh install of vista is gets to expanding files and doesnt go any further

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

hmm just googleing that drive does give people errors during vista installer

maybe this have some use no harm in trying

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do...isp_nm=HD501LJ

some sort of software maybe drivers not sure check it out

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btw does you mobo support ata-300 if it only supports 150 i think u can set it to that maybe thats the problem

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Have you deleted the partition and created a new one?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933171

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Yeah I have deleted the drive and then created a new partition

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

Remove all RAM and start with minimum of 512 mb if you have that sized stick.Just so you can try another install?

Did you run the compatability wizard?

Boot from Vista DVD and choose command prompt.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial147.html

Command line is format d: /q /fs:ntfs

Re: [Merged] PC freezes and wont install Vista
 

I have tryed it with one stick which was 1 gig stick memory