worthless me

i have a dell, 2.8 dual core, 2 gig memory, 250 gig hd, 256meg pci express vid, etc...no worries for vista. currently running xp home. to install i have: tried to get xp to create a partition, that failed. used partition magic to create a partition. 30 gig partition created. burned dvd, tried straight out of xp to run dvd...install blows up, says something about not being able to copy files to c. ok, reboot, change boot order to dvd...vista install comes up, enter key, install starts...gets to 72%...dies. crashes, says something about failing and just stops. 3 times, 2 different dvds...one burned at 4x, one at 2x. checksum fine on both. tried poweriso to create virtual drive to mount iso to, got it, started install...failed. all i want is a dual boot. xp with everything i know and love and a little 30 gig heaven for vista that i can play around with. nothing. i will not replace any version of windows on either computer with this, i signed up for this to check it out for both work and home...right now i will be recommending a stay with XP.

Next time download the Beta Client and submit the logs from the inf directory of your Vista partition or install source instead of detailing stuff that the log would much better aid in solving...
Of course the installation has some kind of error reporting but it doesn't work for hw probing related crashes like yours seems to be. For these you must find the logs and install the beta client on the XP.
"n_sani_t" wrote in message

i have a dell, 2.8 dual core, 2 gig memory, 250 gig hd, 256meg pci express vid, etc...no worries for vista. currently running xp home. to install i have: tried to get xp to create a partition, that failed. used partition magic to create a partition. 30 gig partition created. burned dvd, tried straight out of xp to run dvd...install blows up, says something about not being able to copy files to c. ok, reboot, change boot order to dvd...vista install comes up, enter key, install starts...gets to 72%...dies. crashes, says something about failing and just stops. 3 times, 2 different dvds...one burned at 4x, one at 2x. checksum fine on both. tried poweriso to create virtual drive to mount iso to, got it, started install...failed. all i want is a dual boot. xp with everything i know and love and a little 30 gig heaven for vista that i can play around with. nothing. i will not replace any version of windows on either computer with this, i signed up for this to check it out for both work and home...right now i will be recommending a stay with XP.

beta client...got it, i'll try and find that and retry to get the reports, thanks for the info. got so irritated last night i removed the partition, removed pm and threw away the disk for vista. fortunately at least 2 of those are recoverable, hehe.
"droid" wrote:

Next time download the Beta Client and submit the logs from the inf directory of your Vista partition or install source instead of detailing stuff that the log would much better aid in solving...
Of course the installation has some kind of error reporting but it doesn't work for hw probing related crashes like yours seems to be. For these you must find the logs and install the beta client on the XP.
"n_sani_t" wrote in message i have a dell, 2.8 dual core, 2 gig memory, 250 gig hd, 256meg pci express vid, etc...no worries for vista. currently running xp home. to install i have: tried to get xp to create a partition, that failed. used partition magic to create a partition. 30 gig partition created. burned dvd, tried straight out of xp to run dvd...install blows up, says something about not being able to copy files to c. ok, reboot, change boot order to dvd...vista install comes up, enter key, install starts...gets to 72%...dies. crashes, says something about failing and just stops. 3 times, 2 different dvds...one burned at 4x, one at 2x. checksum fine on both. tried poweriso to create virtual drive to mount iso to, got it, started install...failed. all i want is a dual boot. xp with everything i know and love and a little 30 gig heaven for vista that i can play around with. nothing. i will not replace any version of windows on either computer with this, i signed up for this to check it out for both work and home...right now i will be recommending a stay with XP.