checked the sum!!... but still....

[Guest]

Thank you for all your help guys, but still having problems....

downloaded iso verified checksum... mounted image... copied all folders onto
partition and ran setup locally... have also burned image onto dvd uaing
nero... setup still fails in the extraction sequence... please note files are
sucessfully copied on to installation drive... in this case c: ... I think
i'm nearly there! its just a process of elimination!

Cheers guys.... Paul

 

[droid]

Try to burn the big image file (not mount it) with ImgBurn and if needed,
change bios to boot from cd/dvd. Does it still give errors? If no, then try
running setup from the burned dvd again inside the OS. If it then still
fails then message back here..

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your message, yes... have burnt the image file... have booted to
dvd... have run setup from within XP... still failed...
But still smiling hoping!!!

Cheers

 

[droid]

Ok well there's little to go on, if you are a very tech user you might be
able to figure the problem out by reading the logs..


But either way you should consider submitting a bug report .. Here are my
generic instructions for finding the log files if you didn't already:

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
for setup issues:

setupapi.app.log
setupapi.dev.log