Brian Adams

Mine was easy to discount given the age of the machine. Yours definitely
seems like it should work. I'd call MS tech support.

"Cosmicray" wrote:

> Hey Brian and Doug!
>
> Same problem here: Disk read error after first reboot. Quite obviously there
> is no decent boot-sector when Vista tries to reboot.
>
> My machine is fairly new (1 year) and passed the Upgrade Advisor without any
> problems (2GB of RAM; Intel Pentium 4; 3.2GHz; 1GB L2 Cache; GeForce 6600 LE)
>
> I also ran out of ideas what the probably cause might be ...
>
> Mike
>
>
> "Doug Robmine" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Brian Adams" wrote:
> >
> > > I have burned the final Vista ISO image from my MSDN Subscriber Downloads and
> > > installed it. I have tried XP Upgrades and clean installs on several
> > > different drives. It appears to install/upgrade successfully each time.
> > > When it does the initial reboot I get the error: "A disk read error occurred
> > > press ctrl-alt-del to reboot" every time. What are the BIOS requirements for
> > > Vista? Is it possible my machine is too old? I have a Dell Dimension XPS
> > > T800r. I have downloaded and installed the latest BIOS (A11) from Dell's
> > > site and still no dice. My machine [barely] passes the Vista Upgrade Advisor
> > > tests (800MHz, 768MB RAM, GeForce 5500 FX).
> >
> > I have the same problem on a similar machine Dell Dimension XPS T600r and
> > cannot find any way around this problem. I think maybe the machine is just
> > too old for Vista so maybe time to upgrade to a higher spec. PC.