Vista Install Problem

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Hi, I have tried installing Vista and keep getting error's. If I install
Vista on a New XP istallation Vista installs and works great. If I instal
Vista over an existing XP installation that I've been using for the past year
it starts the install, copies teh files then reboots during the file
expanding part. It reboots after about 30% of the files are expanded. From
there I get a error during the reboot that I'm missing critical files.
If I do a fresh install on a drive running a freashly installed version of
XP then I have to reinstall all my programs and files and I don't want to do
this.
I have a Thinkpad T42P with a 120gig drive and 2 gigs or ram.
Jimmy
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How do you differentiate between installing Vista "on" an XP
installation--you mean you dual boot it from XP and do you mean by
installing over XP upgrading to Vista from XP? If you either dual boot or
you install on a separate HD/box things should work fine. As to installing
all your programs, you can probably install just a few not a ton of programs
while its a Beta and be fine. If you're trying to upgrade from XP they have
work to do on the upgrades but you shoul,d be able to. If you can explain
*clearly* precisely how you want to install it and precisely what errors you
get maybe someone could help further.

This may be of help: Make sure if you dual boot you always install the
oldest operating system first. Do not install Vista and then try to install
XP or you'll put yourself into errors that need bootsect and BCDedit
repairing.

How to install Windows Vista Beta 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884/en-us

Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/...-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php

CH


CH
 
Hi Chad, sorry for the delay, I went on vacation.
During the installation of Vista it provides you 2 options:
1. do want to upgrade (from an earlier version of Windows)
2. or perform a clean install which performs a format then a Vista install.
I am trying to upgrade from XP. This particular drive I’ve been using for 6
months. It goes thru the installation process but fails while extracting the
files. It gets to 20% then reboots. It then gives me the option of booting up
in a Earlier version of Windows or Microsoft windows.
As a side note: Looking at the install option I’m under the impression that
it would install over XP. But it looks like it only loads with the dual boot
option. If this is the case I’m not interested in having to operating systems
on my laptop and having to install my software on XP and Vista. This will
burn up to much precious laptop hard drive space.
My second time around I installed on my Thinkpad a brand new HD. I installed
Windows XP then installed Vista and it worked great.
The difference between both installs is that the 1st failed when I tried to
perform an upgrade installation and the 2nd one worked when it reformatted
the drive.

Thanks for your help.
 
Setup does the first reboot at 20% of file expansion. This probably
indicates that you have not provided a needed hard drive controller driver.
You do this at the beginning of Setup when you see the Load Drivers button.
A driver may be loaded from a floppy, cd, or flash drive.

This would happen no matter what update or clean instlallation scenario you
were doing.
 
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