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Albright.Brian
I just built a new machine, (E6600, 4GB ram, 2x250GB hard drives,
geForce 7900GS). I built it, installed XP pro, and got it up and
running on one of the drives. I also have a copy of Vista business
laying around, and I wanted to install it on the other hard drive to
play around with. So I toss the DVD into the drive, and tell it to
boot from it. After it goes through the loading config files, and
then that little scrolly bar when vista is loaded, the blue curtain
screen comes up, and remains blank forever (forever being from
9am-6pm). I'm wondering what I can do, or what needs to be done to
get Vista on this machine.
For visual reference, it freezes at the third picture from this
guide : http://vistabusiness.windowsreinstall.com/installnewhdd/installnewhdd.htm
I ran the vista upgrade advisor on my xp partition, and since the only
software I installed so far is partition magic (which is not vista
compatable ><) that is the only warning that the upgrade advisor gave.
The hard drives are 2 year old maxtor SATA's. I don't know if it
matters, I heard someone mention vista requires some magic pixie dust
on your hard drive or something.
Any advice?
geForce 7900GS). I built it, installed XP pro, and got it up and
running on one of the drives. I also have a copy of Vista business
laying around, and I wanted to install it on the other hard drive to
play around with. So I toss the DVD into the drive, and tell it to
boot from it. After it goes through the loading config files, and
then that little scrolly bar when vista is loaded, the blue curtain
screen comes up, and remains blank forever (forever being from
9am-6pm). I'm wondering what I can do, or what needs to be done to
get Vista on this machine.
For visual reference, it freezes at the third picture from this
guide : http://vistabusiness.windowsreinstall.com/installnewhdd/installnewhdd.htm
I ran the vista upgrade advisor on my xp partition, and since the only
software I installed so far is partition magic (which is not vista
compatable ><) that is the only warning that the upgrade advisor gave.
The hard drives are 2 year old maxtor SATA's. I don't know if it
matters, I heard someone mention vista requires some magic pixie dust
on your hard drive or something.
Any advice?