fresh clean Vista Installation FAILURE

Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation of Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I got after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.

It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow in multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played games ok tho - but needed a cooler.

Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the suggested Asus bloatware mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff like Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc...

But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startup and multitasking.

My friend a computer guru advised me to do a format and fresh clean installation. So I formated C drive - including the recovery partition as I did not want the pre-installed Asus software.

However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs near the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviously can't get to desktop or do a safe mode.

Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem.

BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk.

The computer is spec. No modifications made.

The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem.

Please help.

After trying to install the machine for several hours - I still don't know whats wrong.

I removed what looks like an external card reader. That didn't help.

I tried installing XP PRO - and XP couldn't find the HD to begin with.

I loaded up a driver for the SATA driver - no help.

Is your original Vista License that came with the Asus
for Vista Ultimate Corporate?

Hi. It doesn't get that far for me to tell it that. But yes, your suspicions are correct. I have the OEM VISTA ULTIMATE License which came with my ASUS notebook. But (my friend) is using a VISTA CORPORATE installation disk to install it.

Vista Ultimate and Vista Corporate Ultimate are two separate animals.

Either deal with the bloatware or find someone to loan you a non-corporate
retail install disk. Activate with the Product Key that came with the Asus in
either case.

Installing with the Corporate disk would be a EULA violation.

Ardneh

Well it doesn't work.

I'll hunt around for a retail installation disk but I think it'll be the same problem

if that's the case. you'll get your money back

Haha... its partly my fault for deleting the image partition. But then when I did it - I thot what else could go wrong?

And then I got a bad feeling about the reinstallation/format and should have held back. But my friend was in a rush and .... ah what the hell, press the button.

some good news - I installed my old XP Pro onto the VX2S Lambo. It works. Got to desktop. I can access D drive and view the videos/photos etc.. I had to disable the SATA HD to compatible though. But it works.

How much ram does you laptop have? i think you could be suffering from the old Vista x64 too much ram problem..... if you wish to continue from your xp install then check the amount sticks and reduce to 1 or 2 sticks for a successful install then once you have a successful install then you may proceed to install the remaining ram

2 gig only.

I just successfully installed XP PRo onto the machine by modifying the SATA Drive to compatible mode in the bios. It can get to desktop and I can view D drive and access the files there. And I haven't even loaded the XP drivers yet. So it works!

Not sure why the Vista installation failed - maybe it was due to the disk. I'll try and find another one and try installing it again.

But it begs the question - why would a fresh clean installation of Vista fail ?