I had vista rc1 running fine for 2 months. I had to replace a fan few days
ago on my laptop and coincidently the o/s was corrupt as well. I reinstalled
vista rc1 fresh (deleted partition / formatted drive) and it did the first
steps (extracting files, etc). It rebooted the first time fine to continue
installation.

During "completing installation" it shuts down after 10 minutes and never
reboots!

I don't know why. This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd I've
tried. I've re-attempted this at least 10 times since yesterday, same exact
problem. I installed XP fresh, no problem at all.

Why is it giving me a hard time suddenly out of nowhere? Even repair mode
does not work at all.

Spec:

Centrino Pentium M
IBM t42p
2gb memory
60gb drive
single partition / formatted / fresh install (not upgrade)

I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to "default
settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but power
and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It simply
shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.

If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that install
failed.

Damaged media?

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
[url]http://www.windowsresource.net/[/url]

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"Chad" <Chad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:98756E5F-AA93-43F3-955F-C8B5E979E26D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I had vista rc1 running fine for 2 months. I had to replace a fan few days
> ago on my laptop and coincidently the o/s was corrupt as well. I
> reinstalled
> vista rc1 fresh (deleted partition / formatted drive) and it did the first
> steps (extracting files, etc). It rebooted the first time fine to continue
> installation.
>
> During "completing installation" it shuts down after 10 minutes and never
> reboots!
>
> I don't know why. This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd
> I've
> tried. I've re-attempted this at least 10 times since yesterday, same
> exact
> problem. I installed XP fresh, no problem at all.
>
> Why is it giving me a hard time suddenly out of nowhere? Even repair mode
> does not work at all.
>
> Spec:
>
> Centrino Pentium M
> IBM t42p
> 2gb memory
> 60gb drive
> single partition / formatted / fresh install (not upgrade)
>
> I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to "default
> settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but power
> and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It simply
> shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.
>
> If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that install
> failed.[/color]

What did you not understand?

" This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd I've
tried."

"Paul Smith" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Damaged media?
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> [url]http://www.windowsresource.net/[/url]
>
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>
>
> "Chad" <Chad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:98756E5F-AA93-43F3-955F-C8B5E979E26D@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I had vista rc1 running fine for 2 months. I had to replace a fan few days
> > ago on my laptop and coincidently the o/s was corrupt as well. I
> > reinstalled
> > vista rc1 fresh (deleted partition / formatted drive) and it did the first
> > steps (extracting files, etc). It rebooted the first time fine to continue
> > installation.
> >
> > During "completing installation" it shuts down after 10 minutes and never
> > reboots!
> >
> > I don't know why. This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd
> > I've
> > tried. I've re-attempted this at least 10 times since yesterday, same
> > exact
> > problem. I installed XP fresh, no problem at all.
> >
> > Why is it giving me a hard time suddenly out of nowhere? Even repair mode
> > does not work at all.
> >
> > Spec:
> >
> > Centrino Pentium M
> > IBM t42p
> > 2gb memory
> > 60gb drive
> > single partition / formatted / fresh install (not upgrade)
> >
> > I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to "default
> > settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but power
> > and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It simply
> > shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.
> >
> > If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that install
> > failed.[/color]
>[/color]

"Chad" <Chad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F65C4105-0ACC-4CC7-8D81-AC86C1EC5A4A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> What did you not understand?
>
> " This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd I've
> tried."[/color]

And writable DVD media is hardly that reliable to dismiss out of hand. Try
burning it at 1x speed, or mount the image in XP.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Corrupted ISO? Try obtaining another image, burn that install again. Also,
try burning at a low speed, 1 to 2x for best results.
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Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
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"Chad" <Chad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F65C4105-0ACC-4CC7-8D81-AC86C1EC5A4A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> What did you not understand?
>
> " This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd I've
> tried."
>
> "Paul Smith" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Damaged media?
>>
>> --
>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> [url]http://www.windowsresource.net/[/url]
>>
>> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>>
>>
>> "Chad" <Chad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:98756E5F-AA93-43F3-955F-C8B5E979E26D@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> >I had vista rc1 running fine for 2 months. I had to replace a fan few
>> >days
>> > ago on my laptop and coincidently the o/s was corrupt as well. I
>> > reinstalled
>> > vista rc1 fresh (deleted partition / formatted drive) and it did the
>> > first
>> > steps (extracting files, etc). It rebooted the first time fine to
>> > continue
>> > installation.
>> >
>> > During "completing installation" it shuts down after 10 minutes and
>> > never
>> > reboots!
>> >
>> > I don't know why. This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd
>> > I've
>> > tried. I've re-attempted this at least 10 times since yesterday, same
>> > exact
>> > problem. I installed XP fresh, no problem at all.
>> >
>> > Why is it giving me a hard time suddenly out of nowhere? Even repair
>> > mode
>> > does not work at all.
>> >
>> > Spec:
>> >
>> > Centrino Pentium M
>> > IBM t42p
>> > 2gb memory
>> > 60gb drive
>> > single partition / formatted / fresh install (not upgrade)
>> >
>> > I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to
>> > "default
>> > settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but
>> > power
>> > and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It
>> > simply
>> > shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.
>> >
>> > If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that
>> > install
>> > failed.[/color]
>>[/color][/color]