InternalStorm Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) Hey, When I attempt to install Vista Beta 1 it goes just fine either booting from DVD or doing a mount. I input where i want to install it, the CD Key etc. and starts to install with the progress bar. After it reboots and then it takes me into some blue screen with the build # in the bottom corner and it gives me a command prompt that says it should be "used only if there is a failed installation" and that I should type EXIT and press Enter to continue setup. I do that, and it just reboots the computer again and will go to that same screen... any help would be appreciated. UPDATE I now tried to install via the burnt DVD, and it goes about half way (the progress bar when installing) and then says it needs to restart to continue the setup. It reboots, and then it goes to the OS selection screen and I choose Longhorn of course, and then it says some "hal" file is missing. It won't even go back into the setup to finish ! Any idea? Edited July 29, 2005 by Toxicity_Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kussie Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 I'm getting the same result inregards to the command prompt and i am trying to install from the DVD. It copies and then after it reboots it opens the command prompt and says "Use this only if there is a failed installation", and that i should type exit to continuie, which if you do it just keeps doing the same thing over and over agian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engendro Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Same problem here :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efishta Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 This is the same problem I am having... the image itself is fine because it installs fine under VMWare. I've been thinking as to what could have caused this problem, and these are the different configs I've run it under. First time I tried to install from Windows XP into another hard drive I have 3 physical hard drives, (C, D, E). I have Windows XP on C: and I installed Vista Beta 1 onto either D or E. There was over 10 GB of space on the hard drive. so I don't think the amount of free space was an issue. It went through the install, it notified me that it needs to restart and it did. Upon restart, the command prompt with the above message came up and I could do nothing more. The second time I tried was also in another hard drive (either D or E, but not the XP one, which is C) and this time I did not start the installation from Windows XP but directly from the bootable DVD. This time it took a while longer and upon restarting itself, I tried to launch it from the boot menu and it gave me a missing hal32.dll error. So far the only thing I can think of that might be causing this problem is the fact that I am installing Vista onto another physical hard drive rather than the primary phsyical hard drive, which is C:. If I have to I'm going to try to partition my physical primary drive into 2 partitions and then install Vista onto the newly created partition and then see if that solves the problem. It would be helpful for the other who had this problem to post their hard drive configurations. Not the specs, but the configurations, partitions, number of drives etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingloss Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 I've found that to make totally sure that Vista will install on a new partition is to make sure that a full format has been done on it first. I had one or two problems by creating the partition and leaving it raw (Vista does not support raw partitions in Beta1), I then quick formatted it still no joy. As soon as I did a full format of the partition setup worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwind Hawk Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 This is a problem for alot of people. There is no known solution-- different solutions work on different computers. Some are: Install XP on the partition first, then override it with longhorn Delete partition, recreate, do not format Full Format (as SOHara said) I think this may be part of the problem though: In the log file of a successful installation you see this: Info [0x0601dc] IBS Setup has completed phase 2 at 2005-08-04 12:28:51 Info [0x0601ce] IBS Setup has started phase 4 at 2005-08-04 12:29:51 When going through the cmd window problem, the last 3 lines of your log are: Info [0x0601dc] IBS Setup has completed phase 2 at 2005-08-04 09:09:00 Info [0x0601ec] IBS MoveSetupFilesAfterWinPEPhase:Successfully copied Setup files from [X:\$Windows.~BT\sources\Panther] to [E:\Windows\Panther] Info [0x090009] PANTHR CBlackboard::Close: x:\$windows.~bt\sources\panther\setupinfo. I checked out what "setupinfo" was and it's not very readable in notepad, so I don't know how to handle it. But whatever it is, perhaps it shouldn't be closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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