Vista 5308 installation problem

[Guest]

I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2
event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide
Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or
the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive
as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried
the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista
install.

Help!

Dan

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Might sound like a lame foboff excuse - however try copying all the files
off the disk and onto a folder on the hard drive itself, say on the Desktop
and try installing from there.

I haven't had a single Vista installation from 5112 (and a couple of more
recent internal builds) that have actually worked from the disk media - I've
always had to copy the files onto the harddrive first.

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[Andre Da Costa]

How did you launch Windows Vista setup, by booting off the disk or from
within XP? What is the partition size, I think build 5308 requires a minimum
of at 13 GBs free space.
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[Guest]

I launched the install by booting off of the CD. The drive is 80 gig, and I
have tried with the entire drive formatted as a single NTFS partition, and
also without any partition created at all.

 

[AJR]

As Andre has suggested in previous posts - install 5308 from within XP.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Have you actually tried from boot though? Sure that's available...

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[Andre Da Costa]

I am not sure, but I don't think Vista currently supports installing to RAW
disk, only logical partitions. I would suggest installing XP on that 80 GB
drive, then start the setup from XP and choose a clean install or boot from
the disk and select the 80 GB drive and see if it installs then.
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