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Install Vista FROM HDD instead of DVD?
AJR ajr...@comcast.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Jeff - May be a stupid question - but it is a DVD . capable drive? Vista isn't running at that time so it is almost impossible that that could be the case. It sounds like your install disk may be damaged or scratched.

Will Microsoft Sell Me Installation Disks For My OEM Version?
After installation, i have a problem where vista will not boot unless the bios is set to boot from cd/dvd drive and the disc must be in the drive; I was running version 1.9 and updated to 1.D; though this hasnt fixed the problem and instead the booting up of the PC seems to be slower as it takes longer for IDE

after vista install, pc won't boot
Also before you upgrade include doing a defrag, running your antivirus (I use Webroot) and then disable your antivirus program before starting the upgrade. .... This is Vista in limbo. RENAME THEM, but simply putting aX in front of each. Now can put the Vista DVD in your drive and try again to install.

Vista won't boot up! Please read! HELP!
Kudos to Microsoft for these new "features" that make things easier and increase efficiency in the workplace! What would we do without all their brilliant innovations! John Ron Sommer wrote: Vista upgrade must be started from within a running copy of Windows. If you ever need to reinstall Vista, you have to install

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Well my DVD drive did not have any newer fiirmware available , well I removed my Vista install and am going back to XP till new drivers come out , too many Have been using Vista for about a 11 days now and the whole time BF2 was running , although not very well because of the screwy driver situation with Nvidia

Windows Vista Home Premium will not boot after Windows update.
So perfect, that Vista envied it and wouldn't allow it to run. - 'K-Lite Codec Pack'. Oh sweet fuck did Windows Media Player in Vista have a fucking conniption about these codecs. And if they change their mind about a component or two, let them pop the DVD back in and fucking install it later.

DVD DRUVE INUSE AFTER VISTA INSTALL
Some of these files had left processes running in the background and were causing slowness, and other issues with streaming video and sound. (2) Vista may have an issue with 'SATA' connections. The system I am having built will have a SATA connected 20x DVD RW drive and an IDE connected 20x DVD RW drive.

Vista frozen after vista updates installed
I've also tried swapping the DVD writer with an AD-7170A Tried warm booting, cold booting, leaving running at hang point for an hour. So far no good. Can anyone shed any light on this. I've seen this issue on a few forums but no real answers. I ran Vista upgrade advisor on the machine and the only thing it picked

Vista Install experience
What likely happened is that when you inserted the Vista DVD driver, the installation launched both on the host and in the virtual machine. If you were seeing the physical drives on your host then you were interacting with the Vista install program that was running on the host and not the one that was running

Drive letters in XP and Vista both indicate C:\
The DVD (from which I'm installing) read light is flickering solid. I'm trying to install the December build of Vista. The progress bar is almost half way in step 2 (installing windows). So, what's the problem? The Vista install has been running for 7 hours+ !!! Any insights?

Vista Upgrade Path
Tossed into a case with a 550 watt P4/Athlon PSU, with a DVD rom drive, and 768 Mb DDR memory, it all booted, then installed, in about 15 minutes. Wow! And look what you ended up with... If an XP or Vista install were attempted, I would still be here working on trying to gather all the drivers! What drivers?

Keeping same XP Drive Letter Assignments after Vista install?
I know it'd work in XP. have to hope it does the same in Vista. ... I am writing this from memory so the choices may be a little off. Put your Vista DVD in and boot to it. so i click on the system protection link and another mini window comes up that says "Your computer is running in a limeted diagnostic state.

vista upgrade back to xp
Vista isn't running at that time so it is almost impossible that that could be the case. It sounds like your install disk may be damaged or scratched. as it sounds like you can't, you will need to go into the bios settings and change the boot priority list to tell it to boot from dvd drive first.

vista ultimate x64 install
So long as both WinXP x86 and Vista x64 can see that folder, it won't matter if WinXP calls it E:\Quicken and Vista thinks it's L:\Quicken. (On a side note, when we boot from the Vista DVD to run Setup, it has no idea what drive letters have been assigned, so it assigns C: to its own Boot Volume - even if that's

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
The system running Vista Home Premium immediately went to the Blue Screen of Death with the same error message. The system recovered after I unplugged the drive PARLEY "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: If you can't start setup, I see no way to fix it. You probably need a new hard drive. You should try the diagnostic

Vista install not booting
Ok currently i am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit on a custom built PC (Info at bottom). The problem is that there was an issues with the PC and some OS files were corrupted causing problems with Vista. I have tried to load the vista install boot DVD to do a system restore or a clean install of vista but for

Vista Install BUG maybe???
Why not just let it run automatically as it is set up to do? You definitely don't need to defrag that often... Real nice. And by the way, Eric, the reason you don't "need" to defrag partitions on a Vista system is that a fresh install defaults to defragging them for you on a schedule, every wednesday morning at 1am

Problem installing downloaded programs on Vista
Ok , heres the story... using a tutorial i found I set up a dual boot system by installing vista then xp, both installed without a problem, vista is on drive C: and XP was on drive F: and was able to boot into either. The DVD drives on D and E. to cut a long story short, i had to re-install vista and after doing so

Install/startup problem: Vista on Intel RAID controller (ICH8R etc
I already have XP up and running on the first HDD, been in use about 1 year. I have tried 2 Vista copies, one of the 64 bit version and one of the 32 bit version. The same thing happens with both. I boot with the DVD in the drive and the PC starts to run the disc. I see the windows is loading files screen with the

Vista Repair Install
Price included Sempron 3000+ processor. Tossed into a case with a 550 watt P4/Athlon PSU, with a DVD rom drive, and 768 Mb DDR memory, it all booted, then installed, in about 15 minutes. Wow! If an XP or Vista install were attempted, I would still be here working on trying to gather all the drivers!