Vista Beta 1 Installation Problem


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Ok, when I try to install the Vista Beta 1, it asks restarts the computer. So when it restarts, all I get is a black screen and nothing appears. What to do?

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It says i'm missing a "hal.dll", I heard that some people who install new OS's will get that, because the boot.ini information is wrong.

I googled, but it did not help. Any suggestions?

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i'm having trouble installing the OS ... I'm using MS Virtual Machine 2004.... i load up the ISO.... and go through the setup ... I put in the product key.... that works fine.. but when it trys to detect and of my hard drives.... it's come up with zero .... then any button i try to press .... such as add, extend, new, load drivers ..... i get and exception error and it closes the setup on me..... I have 2 HDD's ... and i made a separate partition (NTFS) on my secondary .... Does anyone have any idea whats the problem? ... what i may be doing wrong?

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I don't know Virtual PC, but don't you have options to add disk drives? If u did that (I assume so), try to format it first with a floppy just to be recognized.

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nvm i figured out my problem .... i used this method...

When you get to the ?Install Windows? screen, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt. Type DISKPART at the prompt and use the following commands.

select disk 0 
create partition primary 
select volume 1 
format fs=ntfs label="vista" 

After this I typed EXIT to leave the utility, reset the VPC, and started the installation again.

more info can be found HERE

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