Vista Installation Fails After First Reboot

[Guest]

Hi

I have been trying to install Windows Vista. Each time it fails on me.
First, I put in the disk, running smoothly and all. 100% Copying Files, 27%
Expanding Files, and the computer reboots. It reboots and after the loading
screen (with the green bar) goes away, there is a blank black page. It is
stuck on this page and doesn't go anywhere. Any help?

Computer Specs:
Gigabyte K7 Triton, nForce 2
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Corsair 2x1gb Ram
DVD-ROM
DVD-Burner


Primary HDD-
120gb WD IDE

Slave HDD-
160gb SATA Seagate HDD
74.3gb SATA Raptor 10,000 RPM WD

 

[Guest]

Hi,

The same thing happened to me.
Didn't want to install off the original DVD by boot from CD, didn't either
by installation from XP, copied the content of the DVD to a drive different
from the one that i wanted to install vista to, without success.

I tried to install on another drive, and it worked.

Thing is, on the disk i wanted to install Vista to, i had a failing Vista
beta 2 before, with tons of undeletable files. My guess is that some of your
NTFS streams are locked up, and Vista setup cannot access them.

Solutions:
- install on another drive that never had any previous Vista (betas, RCs)
- try to format (not a quick format) the disk