Hi there,

I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of the beta. I boot from the DVD
fine, and the installation's first steps goes without any issues. Then, when
it gets to the stage of copying the files, before it actually gets to begin
copying, I get an error saying it couldn't find any local drive which to copy
the temporary setup files (sorry, i can't remember the exact message, but it
was basically saying that) and thus, the whole process just stops.

Does anyone have any idea what's up with that? Here's my setup:



AMD64 3200+ w/ ASUS mb
512Mb RAM
100Gb WD Hard Disk partitioned as followed:
- 25Gb Partition with WinXP Pro (32bit) installed
- ~65Gb "Share" Partition in which I put all my stuff (music, videos, docs,
etc)
- 18Gb Unallocated space (at first) in which I intend to install Windows
Vista Beta2.
Pioneer DVD-RW 4x

I hope i provided enough info, and thanks in advance for your efforts in
trying to resolve my case.

Did you format the unallocated space as an NTFS partition?
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"Manfire" <Manfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news829BE98-39D8-472B-9C1D-7E822136AA34@microsoft.com...
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of the beta. I boot from the DVD
> fine, and the installation's first steps goes without any issues. Then,
> when
> it gets to the stage of copying the files, before it actually gets to
> begin
> copying, I get an error saying it couldn't find any local drive which to
> copy
> the temporary setup files (sorry, i can't remember the exact message, but
> it
> was basically saying that) and thus, the whole process just stops.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's up with that? Here's my setup:
>
> AMD64 3200+ w/ ASUS mb
> 512Mb RAM
> 100Gb WD Hard Disk partitioned as followed:
> - 25Gb Partition with WinXP Pro (32bit) installed
> - ~65Gb "Share" Partition in which I put all my stuff (music, videos,
> docs,
> etc)
> - 18Gb Unallocated space (at first) in which I intend to install Windows
> Vista Beta2.
> Pioneer DVD-RW 4x
>
> I hope i provided enough info, and thanks in advance for your efforts in
> trying to resolve my case.

I did, within the installation process I selected the unallocated space and
clicked 'New' which formatted the space into a new NTFS partition (by the
way, this newly-created partition is unreadable for PartitionMagic, but
Windows XP seems to see it all fine (creates a new 'E' drive)).

Anyway, I wouldn't have been able to click the 'Next' button if I hadn't
created that partition.

Thanks anyway.. but for some reason it's something else

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> Did you format the unallocated space as an NTFS partition?
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> Andre
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> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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>
> "Manfire" <Manfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news829BE98-39D8-472B-9C1D-7E822136AA34@microsoft.com...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of the beta. I boot from the DVD
> > fine, and the installation's first steps goes without any issues. Then,
> > when
> > it gets to the stage of copying the files, before it actually gets to
> > begin
> > copying, I get an error saying it couldn't find any local drive which to
> > copy
> > the temporary setup files (sorry, i can't remember the exact message, but
> > it
> > was basically saying that) and thus, the whole process just stops.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what's up with that? Here's my setup:
> >
> > AMD64 3200+ w/ ASUS mb
> > 512Mb RAM
> > 100Gb WD Hard Disk partitioned as followed:
> > - 25Gb Partition with WinXP Pro (32bit) installed
> > - ~65Gb "Share" Partition in which I put all my stuff (music, videos,
> > docs,
> > etc)
> > - 18Gb Unallocated space (at first) in which I intend to install Windows
> > Vista Beta2.
> > Pioneer DVD-RW 4x
> >
> > I hope i provided enough info, and thanks in advance for your efforts in
> > trying to resolve my case.
>
>
>