I don't know about the read speed from USB based drives, but it should be
improved in Vista since setup now utilizes Windows Preinstallation
Environment.
"Try running the setup from
a network share or an internal drive if you can. Also, setup's always go
faster if you have the setup files in a folder actually on the disk you're
installing to."
Good point.
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"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Now, I'm prepared to be quite wrong on this... an internal DVD drive goes
> pretty much straight into the motherboard - very fast. If it has to go
> through a USB 1.2 port, this is lower bandwidth to the motherboard... so
> in theory, it'd be slower running a DVD from a USB external than an
> internal drive.
>
> Does that make sense.. and am I wrong about that? Try running the setup
> from a network share or an internal drive if you can. Also, setup's always
> go faster if you have the setup files in a folder actually on the disk
> you're installing to.
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> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 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
>> news:FA340AB6-79DB-4318-A2CF-1C4B82384877@microsoft.com...
>>> 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
>>
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