Vista installs completely but won't load

[Ian Cairns]

I have installed Vista in a clean G: partition. The installation process
completes including a successful reboot half-way through.
However, after the installation, there is the final reboot. This has a
problem in restarting the PC - so I manually power-cycled.

On powering up, the boot process halts with an error 0xc000000e in
\windows\system32\winload.exe

At this points, the system takes me back to XPSP2 on my C: drive and I can
continue.
I'm so close - can anyone help me achieve that first full load?
Thanks
Ian

 

[Ian Cairns]

I have installed Vista in a clean G: partition. The installation process
completes including a successful reboot half-way through.
However, after the installation, there is the final reboot. This has a
problem in restarting the PC - so I manually power-cycled.

On powering up, the boot process halts with an error 0xc000000e in
\windows\system32\winload.exe

At this points, the system takes me back to XPSP2 on my C: drive and I can
continue.
I'm so close - can anyone help me achieve that first full load?

Checking on the Microsoft Vista support website, I find that Geoff Coupe
asked this same question on 24 May with subject "Winload.exe Corrupt?". The
problem is dealt with by several replies, all of which I am about to try.

Ian

 

[Guest]

So, you get it working? I gave Geoff that info on how to fix it
But not everyone seems to be searching for any topics on winload.exe...so
they keep making new ones. haha