That is strange. Could be the disk speed, I would try burning the ISO the
lowest possible speed, also, I would try another method instead of USB based
external drive. Does the Tablet have a built in DVD optical drive you can
boot from?
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"Saurabh Nandu" <saurabh@noreply.mastercsharp.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am testing the latest Vista Beta2 build, I downloaded the ISO and burned
> a DVD (at 4x). Since I wanted to perform a clean install I connected my
> Toshiba M200 Tablet PC to an external DVD Drive via USB 2.0 and booted off
> the DVD. The boot process started with a DOS screen showing me that Vista
> files were being loaded there was activity on the DVD Drive but the HDD
> light was not blinking.
>
> It seemed like it was loading some files into RAM creating virtual disks
> but this process was taking eternity. I waited for 30 mins and still the
> progress bar was half way. I though something was amiss so I rebooted.
> Plugged the DVD drive in another port and start the installation. Still
> the same thing it took more than 30 mins to get half way through the
> progress bar, then the screen blanked out. The dvd drive was spinning but
> nothing on the screen. Ultimately I was forced to reboot into WinXp Tablet
> PC edition and load the installer from there. I worked perfectly fine from
> there.
>
> So my question is, is there a problem installing from DVD using a USB
> Drive? Since 30 mins and more for just loading the installer is plain
> unacceptable.
>
> Machine Config
> Toshiba M200 Tablet PC
> 1.5 Ghz Centrino processor, 512 MB Ram,
> 40 GB Hdd.
>
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh Nandu
> Microsoft C# MVP