I was installing it onto my 2nd HDD, which is why I think it failed. I wanted
to dual-boot to test it out. I guess it didn't like my drive as during the
install it popped up with a message that it was unable to locate the
partition and that it could not install.
The drive is an IDE drive with a converter to connect it to a SATA
connection. It doesn't appear to have installed any files on the drive.
All I want to do now is get rid of this message/option window
--
- Chris
"Mick Murphy" wrote:
Quote:
> Were you trying to install as a dual-boot? Or an upgrade?
>
> If not, set bios to boot from CD/DVD with Vista DVD in the Drive, reboot,
> DELETE the existing partition, which will be XP, format the hard drive, and
> install vista on its own.
>
> "ChrisGunton" wrote:
> Quote:
> > I tried to install Vista but the install failed. Now when my PC boots I have
> > to jump through some hoops to get it working. Help!
> >
> > When booting it presents me the following options:
> > * An earlier version of Windows
> > * Windows Setup Rollback
> >
> > It automatically chooses the second option which fails, but gives me a
> > chance to go back to the previous menu and choose to load an earlier version
> > of Windows (which works fine)
> >
> > Here is a video of the boot process:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqBr_XqdKQY
> >
> > I've given up on installing Vista for now. But would love to remove these
> > option screens so that I can boot normally again.
> >
> > --
> > - Chris