Vista - ENDLESS REBOOT LOOP WHEN INSTALLING VISTA

Hi, i recently downloaded RC1 of vista and burnt it on a dvd and the dvd
works fine, when i install vista it gets to installing features and updates
and it starts to reboot at first i thought it was routine but it continually
rebooted at the startup screen. any help would be greatly appreciated and i
am not greatly experienced in these things so clear explenations would be
even more appreciated.

If you are doing an upgrade of a previous windows version. you may have to
go back and uninstall incompatible programs and unplug unnecessary devices.
You also may have to resort to a clean install, also with unnecessary
devices (especially USB) unplugged.




"Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i recently downloaded RC1 of vista and burnt it on a dvd and the dvd
> works fine, when i install vista it gets to installing features and
> updates
> and it starts to reboot at first i thought it was routine but it
> continually
> rebooted at the startup screen. any help would be greatly appreciated and
> i
> am not greatly experienced in these things so clear explenations would be
> even more appreciated.

Remove the Vista DVD from the drive during the first reboot.
Somehow I think it is accessing to it, restarting the install process.
Carlos

"Confused" wrote:

> Hi, i recently downloaded RC1 of vista and burnt it on a dvd and the dvd
> works fine, when i install vista it gets to installing features and updates
> and it starts to reboot at first i thought it was routine but it continually
> rebooted at the startup screen. any help would be greatly appreciated and i
> am not greatly experienced in these things so clear explenations would be
> even more appreciated.

This is the new RIF (reiterative installation feature) in Vista.


"Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E24E2354-5A98-41B5-9B7B-46EAF1A1231A@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i recently downloaded RC1 of vista and burnt it on a dvd and the dvd
> works fine, when i install vista it gets to installing features and
> updates
> and it starts to reboot at first i thought it was routine but it
> continually
> rebooted at the startup screen. any help would be greatly appreciated and
> i
> am not greatly experienced in these things so clear explenations would be
> even more appreciated.

When it reboots and asks you to press any key to boot from the DVD, don't
press any keys.

"Intel Inside" <REMOVETHISBIT@com> wrote in message
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> This is the new RIF (reiterative installation feature) in Vista.
>
>
> "Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E24E2354-5A98-41B5-9B7B-46EAF1A1231A@microsoft.com...
>> Hi, i recently downloaded RC1 of vista and burnt it on a dvd and the dvd
>> works fine, when i install vista it gets to installing features and
>> updates
>> and it starts to reboot at first i thought it was routine but it
>> continually
>> rebooted at the startup screen. any help would be greatly appreciated and
>> i
>> am not greatly experienced in these things so clear explenations would be
>> even more appreciated.
>
>