Vista RC1 does not complete the installation

[Guest]

Hi,
I have a 80gb drive, partition into 2 40gb, installed XP Pro on C and trying
to install vista RC1 on D, vista's installation goes to complete
installation, but when it restart after that, it goes to the boot manager I
choose vista, but it says cannot load winload.exe, because "The selected
entry could not be loaded because the applications is missing or corrupt".
Check the D drive contents there is no boot folder, hidden and not hidden.

Vista should have restarted several times before it is completely done. Does
anybody know what the problem is and how to correct it.

Thanks,
Leroy

 

[Guest]

Ok, this is one that needs more info. How are you instaling it. Meaning a
burnt ISO disk? From Virtual Drive, or direct HD. My guess, just with the
limited info, you got a bad burn, that caused the corrupt file. Just a
guess. Give more info on it please.

Lizard Man..Reptile of the Night

 

[Edison]

Exactly the problem I had last week. Couldn't really find an answer on the
web or in newsgroup, tried Vista Bootpro (or whatever it is called), stood
on my head, etc etc, nothing worked.

Then I noticed in bootup process that my XP drive was listed as LBA and my D
drive -- where I was trying to install Vista -- was listed as CHS. I have no
idea what the hell that is, but I went into the Bios and found that both
hard drives were set to Auto detection (one then becoming LBA, the other
CHS). I played around with the options on the D drive (settling on Large, if
I remember correctly), allowed it a little extra time to boot (screen was
blank but then activity kicked in) and presto. Vista.

No idea whether this is just my machine or whether the BIOS problem is more
widespread.

 

[Tom Lake]

Ok, this is one that needs more info. How are you instaling it. Meaning

a
burnt ISO disk? From Virtual Drive, or direct HD. My guess, just with
the
limited info, you got a bad burn, that caused the corrupt file. Just a
guess. Give more info on it please.

If you search Google, you'll see that this is a very common problem. I too
have
the winboot problem even though my checksum matches and the burn is
verified.

Tom Lake

 

[Tom Lake]

Then I noticed in bootup process that my XP drive was listed as LBA and my

D drive -- where I was trying to install Vista -- was listed as CHS. I
have no idea what the hell that is, but I went into the Bios and found
that both hard drives were set to Auto detection (one then becoming LBA,
the other CHS). I played around with the options on the D drive (settling
on Large, if I remember correctly), allowed it a little extra time to boot
(screen was blank but then activity kicked in) and presto. Vista.

No idea whether this is just my machine or whether the BIOS problem is
more widespread.

Thank you! You've solved the problem for me as well. I have a 120GB C:
drive
for XP and a 500GB D: drive. I was trying to install Vista to the D: drive
and was getting the winload error. After I changed the BIOS setting for D:
to
Large rather than Auto, Vista installed on D: with no problem.

Thanks again!

Tom Lake

 

[Guest]

I have received the Vista DVD directly from Microsoft, there is no problem
with dvd, the problem is exactly what I said, I'm installing vista from
Microsoft Vista dvd, vista setup is not finishing the installation (several
restarts), I can not get by the boot manager, when I choose Microsoft Vista,
It cannot load WINLOAD.EXE, because "The selected entry could not be loaded
because the application is missing or corrupt.

 

[Edison]

Please re-read my original message. Had the same problem. For me, it turned
out to be a BIOS issue.

 

[Guest]

Like I noted before this is a 80GB dirive that I partition into 2 drives
equally, may bios is set to LBA. That is not my problem. Thanks for a
response. What other solution is there? I'm getting ready to give up on the
dual boot situation.

 

[John Barnes]

Lets start from the beginning. You are installing from the DVD or from XP?
You are getting thru several reboots but the final reboot has the boot
manager. What options are available. Are you able to select XP and boot
into XP okay? The boot file is probably on the C drive. You most likely
have that the acive partition. If you can get into XP, you could download
and install VistaBootPro or EasyBCD and look at your boot entries and either
try to fix the Vista entry or add another entry and point to your D drive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response John,

I've tried installing from the DVD and from XP, with the same results.
I don't get through the first reboot, because I get that message that I
mention earlier.
I do get into XP just fine. C drive (XP) is active. I got vistabootpro and
set XP is default and 30 seconds timeout. Vista entry is pointed to D drive
(\windows\system32\winload.exe).
I don't know what else to do. Help please
Thanks,
Leroy