Vista won't boot after installing

[Guest]

I used the upgrade option from within XP Pro to upgrade to Vista Business.
The installer ran without a hitch and restarted itself however many times it
needed to. Upon completing installation, it rebooted to the green scroll bar
screen, then abruptly reboots the computer. I then got the message telling me
Windows didn't boot successfully.
I turned off the option to auto-reboot upon failure, and the next time I
tried to boot, I found this:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
stop: 0x0000000A 0x00000000 0x0000001B 0x00000001 0x81867449

I booted from the install DVD and chose the boot repair option and it ran
for at least 45 minutes before I gave up on it. I have no idea where to go
from here. Any help?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

That's a driver problem. Booting into Safe Mode would likely have made it
possible to find out which driver and disable or uninstall it.

Unfortunately, now that you've tried to repair it and quit in the middle of
the repair, your Windows installation may be corrupted and you may need to
format/reinstall to recover.

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[Guest]

I booted it into safe mode, but when it got to the point where 'safe mode'
appeared at all 4 corners, it told me that installation could not be
completed while in safe mode, and that i needed to reboot normally. Doing so
did the exact same thing as before.

 

[Guest]

Oh well this is just beautiful. I decided to screw it and wipe my windows
partition and reinstall. I backed up my user partition on my FAT32 formatted
share partition, booted into the DVD and from the disk utility I chose to
delete the current NTFS XP partition and install. Except after I created a
new partition and select it for install, it tells me that Windows can't find
an appropriate partition. Whatever, I'll give up for now. Reboot into my
other OS, and oops, not only is the NTFS partition reformatted, but my FAT32
share partition has disappeared, along with my entire user folder.

This is what people have been waiting 5 years for? An OS that requires
multiple restarts to install, and one that deletes partitions that it's not
supposed to touch? An OS where you're required to 'authorize' every time you
want to change anything, effectively teaching users to click without reading?
Give me a break. Installing OS X on my PC was 1000x easier than this. It
installed in a matter of 10-15 minutes (not 1+ hours), didn't have to restart
while the installation process was going, rebooted perfectly after
installation, and didn't touch any of my other partitions. And it's NOT
supposed to run on this computer. Why do people put up with this?

 

[John Barnes]

Did you supply the drivers if you are installing on SATA?, otherwise,
1. Most don't have the problems you are experiencing and
2. Most don't have a choice because they have (the OS) Vista installed on
the computer when they buy it and never change.

Haven't seen anyone else have a problem with Vista affecting a partition
they didn't involve in the install since beta2.

Since you haven't supplied any information about your system, it is
impossible to do anything but guess, and most here aren't mind readers.
What are your computer specs? Exactly how is your HD partitioned (or
drives) and specs on the partitions including which is the active partition
on each HD.

 

[thecreator]

Hi Gossamer,

You and others are under the believe that you can install Windows Vista
overtop an existing operating system, you can't!!!!!

The drivers installed in the previous operating system are for that
operating system, not Vista.

You need to do a reformat and install of Windows Vista on a clean
partition. Then you reinstall all the other programs into Windows Vista.

But remember the larger the operating system's partition, the longer it
takes to run Disk Cleanup, Chkdsk and Disk Defragmenter , as well as taking
a longer time to do a Drive Image of the operating system, so you don't need
to do a complete reinstall, like you now have to do.

Create a partition for Vista no larger than 40 GB. There is no rule that
states the Documents Folder, needs to reside is the same partition as the
operating system. Also the \Program Files can also be located in two
partitions. You don't need to keep all the programs running under Vista
within the Vista partition.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You are incorrect.

 

[andy]

Sorry for the harsh post. I was a bit frustrated.

My hard drive is as follows:

Partition 1: 15GB NTFS Windows

Your NTFS partition seems a little too small.

 

[Guest]

If you can't install it over a current operating system, why is that option
offered? Did you read my post about my partitions? No way I'm giving Windows
40GB, I only use it when I absolutely have to. Unfortunately it requires
7gigs to install (7 gigs) and doesn't allow me to deselect crap I don't want
it to put on my computer. I still would like to get this to work though.

 

[Rick Martin]

Gossamer,

You can upgrade from Win XP. The error you were describing is definitely a
driver problem. I have had this problem in particular with Symantec AV. I
would reccomend you initially unhook all your peripherals and install again
and see what happens. I know you have reformatted but that was not
neccesary. Vista is very good about backing itself back out and restoring
XP. This would have left the Vista install logs so we could see what driver
was causing the problem. You should not need to install any special drivers
for SATA. My drives came up just fine. Only caveat is if you are running a
RAID array and it does not appear you are. Hope this helps.

Rick

 

[John Barnes]

Which chipset do you have on your mobo. Via chipsets often need SATA
drivers. nVidia don't.

 

[Guest]

All I know is that it has the 915GV northbridge and ICH6 southbride, I'm
pretty sure it doesn't have the VIA SATA chipset.
So should I do a clean install of XP Pro and then install Vista right over
it or is there another way to get Vista to work?

 

[dirty old man]

Expand the System Devices in Device Manager.


| All I know is that it has the 915GV northbridge and ICH6 southbride, I'm
| pretty sure it doesn't have the VIA SATA chipset.
| So should I do a clean install of XP Pro and then install Vista right over
| it or is there another way to get Vista to work?

 

[Guest]

Well I don't have Windows installed right now, so that would prove difficult.

 

[Guest]

I do have the same problems with IRQL... 0x0000000A upgrading an existing XP
Pro version. In this case I do have a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium WITH nvidia
chipset (nforce4) running my boot disk on SATA-II so imo there must be an
other incompatibilty.
The boot disk is a 320GB SATA-II disk with 150GB available disk space, so
also the available diskspace is not what is killing. I also tired to let
Vista fix the problems and also stopped this after 60 minutes not having a
glue what the OS is doing as it just told me that it is looking for problems
(without showing a current progress information or comparable).
After that also my old XP installation lost it's functionality and the PC
hanged after booting into it. For god's sake I had done an Acronis image
before installation.
What I did next was deinstalling software and drivers the Preinstallation
Upgrademanager found fault with (but still ment that these would not cause
any troubles installing Vista).
Tried upgrading once again but unfortunately I ran into the same problems as
before and my installation was finaliced with a blue screen and an
IRQL_NOT_LESS... at adress 0X0000000A

 

[John Barnes]

Did you also uninstall any firewalls, anti-virus, and unplug any USB
devices. It is most likely a driver problem associated with some hardware
on your machine. Others have, as a last resort, gotten it to work by
leaving only the mouse, keyboard and video card installed, but most by just
the above. What video card do you have? ATI has also been a problem for
some.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Probably the nVidia firewall thing again. I have that exact board in the
test box and had to be selective about installing the drivers and utilities
from the cd that came with the board.

 

[John Barnes]

Haven't they taken that out and shot it yet? Certainly another program to
uninstall (but you have to install it first - what's that about)

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Where I had the problems were with XP Pro x64 since there were not
in-the-box drivers for the board and I had to install drivers from the cd.
I'm just guessing about Vista but nVidia probably did fix it for the Vista
in-box driver.

 

[Guest]

No ideas anyone?