New Gateway laptop gives install error 0x8007045D

[Guest]

I’ve seen several postings relating to Error code 0x8007045D during attempted
installs of Vista, however no true explanation or solution, does anyone have
one?
My week old Gateway laptop (model: MP6954) has an initial protected
partition installed by Gateway and is 6.82 GB that contains a locked file or
folder called “System Restoreâ€, this is locked by PC Angel. The second
partition (Drive C used the remainder of the drive.
I used Partition Magic 8 to resize the Second partition to 527 GB creating
unused space at the end of the drive (~52 GB).I then rebooted off the DVD I
burned from the image I downloaded, this was the 32 bit version of Windows. I
allowed the installer for Vista format the unused drive space, assuming it
would set up the partitions to its optimal format. After ~38% of
installation it hung, finally giving the 0x8007045D error. I let the Vista
installer back out of the installation and turned the computer off.
After rebooting into Windows XP (Media edition) I discovered that the
installer had formatted the partition using the NTFS format. The installer
had also left some remnants behind, which I deleted. Since I wasn’t sure the
installer had correctly formatted the partition I used Windows XP to reformat
the partition and tried installing Vista again. At ~38% of installation it
hung, finally giving the 0x8007045D error.
Does anybody have any ideas; this computer was advertised as Vista ready

 

[Guest]

Mike, could you just clarify some things for me?
1. Your drive is 120GB and you've repartioned that to have about 52GB for
Vista and 60GB for Media plus the 7GB reserved? (Your post says something
about 527GB!)
2. You are attempting a 'Clean Install' rather than an 'Upgrade'
3. You are running the Vista installation DVD from within Media, or booting
from it?

 

[Guest]

1. The drive is 120 GB (true size is 111.79 GB), I have taken the second
partiton and essentialy split it in two, so the partitons are (as the are in
order on the Drive):
- Partiton 1: 6.84 GB FAT32 (this is the recovery partiton setup by
Gateway)
- Partiton 2: 52.74 GB NTFS (This contains Windows XP Media and my data)
I missed putting the decimal point in on the original post - sorry.
- Partiton 3: 52.21 GB NTFS (This was for Vista to be installed on)

2. I am attemting a clean install, so I duo boot. Although this is not a
critical computer it would be of some inconvinence if I have problems so want
a 'fall back' operating system.

3. I am booting off th DVD and doing a custom install (I'm not 100% sure of
the wording, but I'm not taking the default choices) since I want to set up a
Duo boot system. This is what I've been in th habit of doing with my desktop
when running Beta software, one 'stable partition' to go to just incase the
beta software messes things up, and a second partiton with beta software
where I do most my computing.

 

[zZz]

Hey - seems that you burned the dvd yourself? I saw somewhere that someone had this problem when burning speed was set to more than minimum. try burning a new dvd at lowest speed (2x) - that should fix it.

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[Guest]

Thanks zZz,

I did burn the DVD at the slowest setting my laptop was capeable of. However
I discover that buring the DVD on my Mac (Apple uses better hardware than
Gateway) I got a DVD that installed Vista on my laptop.

It's a shame that Spirefm couldn't have suggested this a month ago...
judging by the number of people tht posted with this problem many could have
benifited by him following up with a decent reply (more my reason for posting
in the first place).