Vista installation fails during first reboot-attempt

[Guest]

During installation of Vista Ultimate everything works fine until the
"expanding data" step is in progress. At around 20% done it stops and the PC
tells me it has to reboot after 9-8-7 seconds.

Unfortunately this reboot does not work ("Disk read error"). The old
boot-section vanished and the new one is not yet installed. Probably because
expanding data did not finish???

There is no difference if I do a clean install or an upgrade.
I don't have a solution.

At least I got XP working again (repair-function and "Fixboot").

Does anyone have a clue?

PS: Upgrade Advisor said everything was fine; got new drivers, patches,
upgrades ...

 

[mikeyhsd]

during early testing it was found to be helpful to turn off/disable any devices not needed during install via the bios.
things like extra drives (hard,cd/dvd), usb,serial,parallel ports.
turn off any over clocking.




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During installation of Vista Ultimate everything works fine until the
"expanding data" step is in progress. At around 20% done it stops and the PC
tells me it has to reboot after 9-8-7 seconds.

Unfortunately this reboot does not work ("Disk read error"). The old
boot-section vanished and the new one is not yet installed. Probably because
expanding data did not finish???

There is no difference if I do a clean install or an upgrade.
I don't have a solution.

At least I got XP working again (repair-function and "Fixboot").

Does anyone have a clue?

PS: Upgrade Advisor said everything was fine; got new drivers, patches,
upgrades ...

 

[Guest]

I've got the same problem on Vista Ultimate. I try to install it parallel to
my XP Sp2 on disk D:.
After extracting 100% files it stops after reboot during "expanding files"
at about 20%-31% (it's different try by try) with same bluescreen:

STOP: 0x000000F4 ( 0x00000003 0x82FB3020 0x891B8CD4 0x00000000 )
win32k.sys
Address 891B8CD4
base at 89000000
DateStamp 4549aea2

Anybody an idea?

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem as well. I have tried both the 32bit, 64bit
version of vista ultimate. Both fail for me. If I run the Vista install in
XP it will install to another partition as a clean install. It will then
reboot the computer after it informs me that it is time to reboot. After
reboot happens the computer will hang up on an installation screen. The one
with a blue/green fading background. If you leave it running for about 25min
to 30min it will finally pop up with an error saying it can't find the
partition and then reboots. After this failure it now constantly reboots. I
have tried the installation about 10 times now. I am going to try to do the
install without doing a clean install and see what happens tonight. But its
bogus if I can't install the upgrade in another partition in order to get a
clean one.

 

[Guest]

During installation of Vista Ultimate everything works fine until the
"expanding data" step is in progress. At around 20% done it stops and the PC
tells me it has to reboot after 9-8-7 seconds.

Unfortunately this reboot does not work ("Disk read error"). The old
boot-section vanished and the new one is not yet installed. Probably because
expanding data did not finish???

There is no difference if I do a clean install or an upgrade.
I don't have a solution.

At least I got XP working again (repair-function and "Fixboot").

Does anyone have a clue?

PS: Upgrade Advisor said everything was fine; got new drivers, patches,
upgrades ...

 

[Guest]

You may have a memory problem, vista is very sensitive. Try only one memory
stick of 512K at a time.

 

[Guest]

@ rontron:

Do you really thing reducing memory capacity to required minimum would help?
I have 2GB installed and thought this would be just perfect.

@mikeyhsd

I thought it was good enough to pull out any usb-devices, but I might give
it a try.
Thanks for the info.
Hope Vista wouldn't crash after switching everything back on line in the
bios ...

 

[Guest]

I still tried out to reduce my ram from 1024MD to 512MB but it did not work
(tried both modules as single). Now i will put out my TV card (pynnacle
stereo) to see weather it is a driver problem...

 

[Guest]

I don't think it is a driver problem.
Since the problem occurs during expanding of files before the first boot of
Vista, Vista is not actually running yet. How can it be a driver problem if
Vista fails to write the new boot sector before it's first start??

 

[Adam Albright]

@ rontron:

Do you really thing reducing memory capacity to required minimum would help?
I have 2GB installed and thought this would be just perfect.

@mikeyhsd

I thought it was good enough to pull out any usb-devices, but I might give
it a try.

Pulling out attached USB devices won't help. You need to DISABLE any
USB controller from BIOS and/or Device Manager prior to starting the
install, if the Vista advisor even hints there "could be" a problem or
you think there may be. Did you run the Vista Upgrade Advisor FIRST
that you can get from Microsoft's site? It is crude, but at least it
gives clues what may go wrong.

The best way to install Vista regardless if you're doing a in place
upgrade or clean install is first reduce your BIOS settings to a bare
mimimum. This step will reduce a lot of potential problems. Vista
comes with a lot of new drivers. The catch 22 is you can't access them
until Vista is up and running. So cripple everything you don't
absolutely need to install the OS.

This is the exact opposite of previous versions of Winodws where the
advice was to typically turn everything on first. With Vista, turn
everything off, then once you are up and running put everything back
one device at a time. Vista even has a cute little animated window
when it finds "new hardware" and does some hand holding installing new
device drives, but you got to have a basic bare bones system up and
running first to have Vista help you.

 

[digibyte]

MichaSchneider,

I had the same problem during some days until discover (reading) on a
forum that "Vista" refuses install on a no-active partition. So,
verify if your partition is marked as "active". If not, mark it as
"active" and try again to install "Vista". After that, the
installation will run nicely.

 

[Guest]

Right! Removing TV card did not work.
Next i will run memtest to check my memory

 

[Guest]

Did your memtest any result?
For my memory it returned no problems at all.
I'm running out of ideas pretty soon!

:-((

Mike

 

[Guest]

Me too, due to memtest all runs ok.
But I red a thred that vista does not work with cardbus (PCMCIA) adapters.
I've got one PCI Ricoh adapter installed for my digital tv-card (former used
in my notebook).
I'll remove the PCI-cardbus adapter and will try again.
Will post result...

 

[Guest]

Hey there!

I'm waiting for it



I put Vista aside for the time being. The only thing I could try is removing
part of the RAM. That obviously worked for some other guys here.
However that would mean opening up my pc and thereby breaking the seals and
therefore losing my waranty. Besides it seems to be odd that you might have
to reduce your RAM for a new OS that actually desires more RAM than the old
one ...

 

[Guest]

Use a blow dryer on the sticker then pull the case apart slowly. I broke my
HP seal and they still fixed it. That was years ago though.

Play at your own risk.

 

[Guest]

I have been having the same problems. Anyone out there figure it out? I
have tried everything and I still get it. Sometimes tho it's at a different
%. Driving me crazy. Help please. Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Hey Doug,

for the time being I gave up trying to install Vista. I haven't found a
solution yet. Unfortunately even the hotline of my pc-manufacturer wouldn't
help me, since they simply recommend Windows XP - that's it.
Some hints go in the direction memory controller problems, but that's just a
guess as well.

Sorry, no good news from my side ...

Mike

 

[Don]

I have been having the same problems. Anyone out there figure it out? I
have tried everything and I still get it. Sometimes tho it's at a different
%. Driving me crazy. Help please. Thanks in advance.

The usual reason for strange problem in the middle of the install is
that the Vista install DVD doesn't have the right driver for your disk
controller or perhaps your graphics card. It seems that SATA disk
controllers and NVidia graphics drivers are especially troublesome.

The solution is to get the right driver from your motherboard
manufacturer's website and supply it to the Vista installer early
in the install process.