Vista - Help! Vista DVD boots into Black screen on a HP computer.

Hi, everyone,

I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC:
Intel Pentium 4 processor 517
1 GB DDR2-SDRAM
200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore
1 DVD drive 16x
1 DVD writer 16x

Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom
the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When
the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited
for 3 hours but nothing happens.

When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files,
decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which
remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give
up that installation.

I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but
to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the
same problem.

At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual
machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.

Hope that someone has a good suggestion.

Regards,

Marc

I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x
with ImgBurn.
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"Marc Wiselius" wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC:
> Intel Pentium 4 processor 517
> 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM
> 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore
> 1 DVD drive 16x
> 1 DVD writer 16x
>
> Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom
> the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When
> the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited
> for 3 hours but nothing happens.
>
> When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files,
> decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which
> remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give
> up that installation.
>
> I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but
> to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the
> same problem.
>
> At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual
> machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
>
> Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc

It's not the iso image. With the iso image I managed to install Vista on a
virtual machine.

Regards,

Marc

"Chris S" <ChrisS@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:0BD9B51B-8CF2-439C-B690-1371AFF58F28@microsoft.com...
>I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x
> with ImgBurn.
> --
> AMD-FX-60
> 2gb OCZ Plat. memory
> ATI 1800 AIW
> 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0
> 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1
> Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B
> Senior Member Overclockers.com
>
>
> "Marc Wiselius" wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone,
>>
>> I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC:
>> Intel Pentium 4 processor 517
>> 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM
>> 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore
>> 1 DVD drive 16x
>> 1 DVD writer 16x
>>
>> Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the
>> bottom
>> the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar.
>> When
>> the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I
>> waited
>> for 3 hours but nothing happens.
>>
>> When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files,
>> decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which
>> remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply
>> give
>> up that installation.
>>
>> I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd,
>> but
>> to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still
>> the
>> same problem.
>>
>> At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual
>> machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
>>
>> Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc

Hi, Chris,

I followed your advise and burned the iso at 4x speed. But to no avail, the
vista dvd still boots into a black screen. I also tried installing from
within XP. At a certain point the pc reboots. It boots into a menu with the
following options:
Previous Windows
Windows setup
XP restore console (it might be something else)

I pressed F8 on Windows setup and selected safe mode. Then I noticed that
vista halts when it reaches "disk.sys". What is this disk.sys? Is there
still a way to install Vista?
Thanks for all your efforts.

Regards,

Marc (aka Alagondar)
"Chris S" <ChrisS@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:0BD9B51B-8CF2-439C-B690-1371AFF58F28@microsoft.com...
>I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x
> with ImgBurn.
> --
> AMD-FX-60
> 2gb OCZ Plat. memory
> ATI 1800 AIW
> 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0
> 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1
> Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B
> Senior Member Overclockers.com
>
>
> "Marc Wiselius" wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone,
>>
>> I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC:
>> Intel Pentium 4 processor 517
>> 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM
>> 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore
>> 1 DVD drive 16x
>> 1 DVD writer 16x
>>
>> Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the
>> bottom
>> the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar.
>> When
>> the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I
>> waited
>> for 3 hours but nothing happens.
>>
>> When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files,
>> decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which
>> remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply
>> give
>> up that installation.
>>
>> I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd,
>> but
>> to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still
>> the
>> same problem.
>>
>> At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual
>> machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
>>
>> Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc