After first Reboot....

[Guest]

I' m trying to do clean install Windows Vista Beta 2 on AMD Athlon 64, 1 GB
Ram. I am using my F drive to do the installation. After rebooting the first
time (I mean after copying files), I got an error message in the Windows Boot
Manager as:
File : \Boot\BCD
Status : 0xc0000098
Info : The windows boot configuration file does not contain a valid OS
entry.
and then the two option: press "Enter" to continue or "Esc" to cancle.
No matter what you do enter or esc, the system boots and back to the same
screen. I tried to reboot my system from XP bootable and Vista DVD, but no
use, same screen. Now I can't run my windows XP which was previously there on
my hard drive. I took out the hard drive and put in another computer to get
access to C and change the boot.ini file but my C and D drives are not
showing onto the other computer, and I didn't even do anything on D for Vista
Installation. I did installation on F drive which is empty and accessible on
to the other machine. I did the sucessful installation from the same Vista
DVD on my Dell Inspiron 9100. Thanks.

 

[droid]

I can't help you but if you want to submit a bug report...
1. Get the HDD you installed Vista on to 2000/XP/2003 computer.
Start-Run-> diskmgmt.msc
Figure out which of the displayed drives is the correct drive and try assign
drive letters to the partitions.
If the drive isn't visible on the disk management console or don't allow
letters assigned to it, then there is some other problem blocking (corrupt
partition table perhaps).

Now you should have your old XP and possibly other (vista partition if setup
got so far) with drive letters.

2. change folder options to make hidden folders visible before searching
3. search all partitions* **, including the Vista one for .log files. Submit
these logs to microsoft using Beta Client.


*If there was no vista partition in diskmgmt.msc: There should be a hidden,
weird named folder, in the
root of the XP drive and the setup logs are somewhere under there (search
..log).

**If setup proceeded far enough for the Vista partition to appear, the logs
are under Vistas Windows\INF


These are the primary setup logs, there are others but these are important
setup problems.

setupapi.app.log
setupapi.dev.log