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Cannot boot Vista Business EDIT: clean install works

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Lifer
I don't know if this is a hardware problem or not, but maybe someone here knows something that might help.

I just got my full retail copy of Vista Business (32bit) from that powertogether thing today.

Installed as an upgrade from within Windows XP Pro. After it is all done installing and tries to boot up, it BSOD's before I even see the desktop. At first I thought it might be because I was overclocking, but I reinstalled it with everything at stock and it still did the same.

I did notice that when I was trying to install it, it said my "SCSI and RAID drivers" were incompatible, but I don't use scsi or raid...


I used Vista betas on my previous hardware which is what leads me to believe it might be a hardware issue, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
 
sounds like a stop 7B from a bad mass storage driver.

Fire up setup again to repair things (don't have the step by step memorized yet, sorry 🙁 ). This time through be sure to provide a mass storage driver.
 
Can you elaborate a little more on the mass storage driver? Isn't that for USB? I don't have any external USB drives...
 
by mass storage driver I mean your SCSI, RAID **OR** SATA driver.

I'm betting you're running an SATA driver leftover from XP. Get into setup and up to that disk screen then provide a driver that is Vista compatible. I wish I could be more specific but I don't have the setup sequence memorized just yet. Sorry.


Ignoring an incompatible mass storage driver warning during an upgrade is kinda asking for trouble. 🙁


 
Originally posted by: Smilin
by mass storage driver I mean your SCSI, RAID **OR** SATA driver.

I'm betting you're running an SATA driver leftover from XP. Get into setup and up to that disk screen then provide a driver that is Vista compatible. I wish I could be more specific but I don't have the setup sequence memorized just yet. Sorry.


Ignoring an incompatible mass storage driver warning during an upgrade is kinda asking for trouble. 🙁
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I'll poke around and see what I can do. I had already rolled back to XP so it might be a while.
If it doesn't work I'll just try a clean install.
 
Well I reinstalled Vista. BSOD'd again on boot.
I booted into the CD, and hit repair. It found my drives OK, so I selected the one with Vista and hit continue.

For the last 10 minutes it's been at the "Setup Repair is checking your system for problems..." screen just "searching for problems" this whole time.

I don't think it's really doing anything. I guess I'll just do a clean install.
 
Well, clean install works so far. Didn't BSOD on boot 🙂

Clean install worked great - everything is up and running smoothly!

Viva la Vista!
 
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