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Vista installation trouble

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noctos

Junior Member
I opted to download Vista RC1, as I have no CD/DVD on my computer.
I tried initiate installation in Windows XP by mounting the ISO as a drive, but it asks for dwwin.exe and then drops out of installation. After some probing, I realize that dwwin.exe really is Dr. Watson in disguise! Fair enough, I copy Dr. Watson & friends from another computer to mine, as it was missing on mine for some reason. Now, Vista install does not complain anymore, but still drops out of installation right after the stage where it formerly complained about dwwin.exe.

So I tried another method. I created two partitions on my spare drive, both NTFS. I made one of them bootable and droped the contents of the Vista ISO on it. I rebooted the computer, added the spare drive to GRUB and booted up from it. Everything works like a charm it seems - it boots installation, and I am presented with a screen that has a single button - "Install Now" or something. Click. It starts up... but then complains about missing drivers. Apparently, it thinks it needs drivers in order to see my HDDs or something. I can tell you it does NOT need that, it bloody booted from them.

My drives are of the SATA variety, connected to an ABIT KV8Pro motherboard. On-chip SATA RAID is turned off in BIOS.

Is there any way of circumventing the screen that asks for drivers? I can't seem to find any way of getting past it. It WANTS a driver, and it won't take no for an answer. I gave it the VIA RAID drivers for the motherboard (even though RAID is turned off). It seems to install the drivers, but then tells me that it found no drives. My HDDs are still visible - I can even provide the installation with device drivers located on them!

Any suggestions?
 
If you have at least two partitions on your disk then just copy all the files from the DVD (after mounting it) to partition2, run setup from there and choose the option (advanced or something) to install on the first partition.
 
Unfortunately, that is exactly what I tried. But like I said, the installation program from within Windows crashes, and the installation program that is launched when booting from the partition with the installation files says that I am required to install some unnamed drivers. It doesn't let me skip past the driver-install-phase.
 
Oh, I didn't read the post carefully.

Anyway if you have copied all the files to the hard disk then try uninstalling Daemon tools or whatever virtual drive software you are using. The setup might be having problems with the virtual scsi adapter that daemon tools installs.
 
The installation crashes under XP with no error message whatsoever, making it a bit difficult to troubleshoot. But it is worth a try.

However, this should be no problem when I "boot from the DVD" (boot from the partition that has the dvd image on it), as DT is not loaded. So Daemon Tools couldn't confuse the installation at THAT point. But it still asks for a driver.
 
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