Solved Fresh install from OEM disk?

Can it be done?

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There are Tutorials on OEM installs here

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html

Tutorial thanks to Brink

Thanks for that, I tried the install and this is what happened:

Things are going from bad to worse!!!

I put the oem vista 64 bit disk in and rebooted, selected the language etc and clicked install, it showed me my two drives which were marked up 0 and 1, as I only new them as C and E I didn't know which one was my C drive which had the current install of Vista on!! It gave me the option to format the drives so I did both, I then chose 0 drive for the new install, it said if anything was left on that drive it would be taken off...I clicked OK.

It ran through all the following:

Copying windows files (Finished OK)
Expanding files (Finished OK)
Installing files (Finished OK)
Installing updates (Finished OK)
It then came up with a black screen saying "Windows starting for the first time bla bla bla"
It rebooted and then went back to the screen showing all of the above.
Completing installation climbed up to about 85% and then it reboots and I get a blue screen with an error message "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer etc etc."

I have tried installing a few times but always get to the same point. I also tried the repair option it gave me but it found nothing! Tried installing on both the 0 and 1 drive to no avail.

All that's plugged into the PC is keyboard/mouse and screen....does it make any difference that the screen connection is hdmi?!?

I took some pictures of the message but my bloody phone will not connect to this xp PC...things just get worse!!!

Any ideas???

Someone on another forum said get windows 7 and that should install straight away without a problem...could that work? I don't want to spend a lot of money if it doesn't work.

PS: The PC was booting and running fine before the fresh Vista install, the only problem I had was trying to install a game.

Thanks

***ALL FIXED***

Thanks for all the replies guys/girls...you wouldn't beleive how simple the fix was!!!!

I'm using a full oem vista 64 bit disk and the 64 bit was the problem!!!! I had 4gig of ram in and thats why it was crashing!!!! As soon as I took a 2gig stick out leaving just 2gig in the install went in straight away

All fixed now MOH installed straight away.

Good to hear it's all fixed. Just post back if it's not how you want it. Did you make a new partition and put the opperating system there.
I don't bother about that,if I need to reinstall I nuke and pave now much easier.
I just stick it on C

I have 2 HD's C & D, I put the OS on C and I'm using D for games/team speak and everything else