Windows Vista Beta 1

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Crimson Behelit

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When I boot from cd, I can't even get to the point to do anything, Like I said, boot from DVD, goto windows loading files screen, then the longhorn boot screen and it freezes.

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Is there any point where you can trigger a text-based install? Have you begun to explore the possibility of a network install? I'm assuming your desktop installed Vista fine?

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When I boot from cd, I can't even get to the point to do anything, Like I said, boot from DVD, goto windows loading files screen, then the longhorn boot screen and it freezes.

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So, from what I understand, you're not even making it to the welcome screen. Correct?

What brand system do you have exactly? I've had some weird problems trying to install this build, such as: I had Linux install on my laptop and figured I'd just blow it completely away, but it would do the exact same thing your saying. I used Acronis DiskDirector 9 and deleted the partitions and it worked just fine afterwards.

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Vista seems to be rather choosy and i may have gotten lucky on this. A clean and newly partitioned drive using NTFS seems to pose the least problems as long as it was clean when installed. I am in the opposite position that i usually find myself in. This time a windows beta installed for me without a prob and I am trying to supply answers instead of hunting for them. I hope you will all bare with me as i try to help out as best i can. I am looking at all the angles i can to see if there is a common thread here and will stick with it as long as i can.

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AgEnTsMiTh

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OK I just deleted the 2 partitions and going to start fresh. Installing XP pro oem on 1 partition, then going to install vista on the other. I had a dual boot with suse and mabey it did not clean up well after I removed it.

I was not able to even get to a welcome screen. It just freezes on the longhorn boot loading screen. It could be something funky going on with my partitions. When I loaded up under XP to start the install there, when I went to choose the partition to install to, it said not available on my empty partition. I assume that may be the problem, who knows, it is a beta after all.

I will let you know if it works or not.

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Are u saying it doesn't support Ati cards yet?

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I think they will be updating there drives themselves so we may see a CCC for .net 2.0 for vista and bugfixes.

The drivers currently in the OS do not have the CCC nor any opengl files.

So gaming is limited with them.

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