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Vista installation hangs up after 1st reboot

Feb 20, 2007 8:47AM PST

I just purchased Vista Home Premium and have spent 3 days trying various ways to install it. Basically what happens is the install procedure goes as far as copying files (100%), expanding files (27%) then reboots, upon reboot I briefly see the Windows green scrolling bar then my screen goes blank (even overnight). When I do restart manually an enter Windows XP Home I get the following message:

Your version of Windows has been restored, and you can continue to use it. Before trying to install this version of Windows again, check to see if it is compatible with your computer. Go to Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com) and search for "upgrade advisor".

I am doing a clean install on a brand new western Digtal 250Gb hard drive, and will use dual boot to choose either XP Home or Vista.

Here are my PC specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 2GHz processor
2.5 Gig of memory
Maxtor 60Gig hard drive (XP operating system on it) IDE
Western Digital 250 Gig Hard drive (for Vista hopefully) IDE
Pioneer DVD-106 DVD Rom
Plextor PX-708A DVD/CD read write
ATI X1650 Pro graphics card with 512MB Memory
Anti-virus has been unistalled

To the best of my knowledge all drivers and firmware are latest possible.

Upgrade advisor indicates no issues with any of my hardware.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You in advance.

Paul B.

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Vista installation hangs up after 1st reboot
Feb 20, 2007 10:18AM PST

Hi Barky

This is not help im afraid. I have just got Vista Ultimate and Home Premium and trying to install on my PC, Intel based with simliar specs and am getting the Exact same problem.

We could really use some help guys.

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Vista Grief
Feb 24, 2007 6:21PM PST

Im having similar problems with Vista ultimate too. You run the upgrade advisor that tells you your PC can run the os. You format a drive to NTFS so its nice and clean, Put the disk in after BIOS and watch the PC hang when the green scroll bar is at the bottom of the screen! - I wasted a whole day trying everything I could.

Im going to attempt to reinstall XP under NTFS and then intsall Vista as an upgrade on top of it.

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27% hang fixed
Mar 21, 2007 10:02PM PDT

i too had this
several times - then i just ejected the dvd and pushed it back in
and it started working again!

pc's gotta love em....
its still going as i type

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Got Vista working finally
Mar 21, 2007 11:08PM PDT

I got it to install fine after removing 512Meg of memory and it is still running fine to this day. The only problem is now I have and extra 512M of memory that I cannont use because if I reinstall the memory Vista will not start.