vista beta 2 freezes install boot up

Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message

Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

Same thing with me too! WOW!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

hey.. but it didnt work for me.. can it be because my hard drive is SATA? am not sure. for me it cant even boot once. As soon as it boots up for the first time, the screen freezes!!!!. Dun know wht to do? any help
"eric1018" wrote:

Same thing with me too! WOW!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

Similar thing for me, but I can log in, get to my desktop, and do things for about 2 minutes, then the mouse starts to jerk about then it just freezes altogether. Tried running in safe mode and the same thing happens
"Karananand" wrote:

hey.. but it didnt work for me.. can it be because my hard drive is SATA? am not sure. for me it cant even boot once. As soon as it boots up for the first time, the screen freezes!!!!. Dun know wht to do? any help
"eric1018" wrote:
Same thing with me too! WOW!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

I got to "completing upgrade" where it sat for over an hour. Then I tried the F8 and at least got to a new screen - ""the upgrade was not successful. Your previous version of Windows is being restored." Using RC2 disk from Microsoft, updated it, trying to do an upgrade. May try again with a clean install.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

I made it all the way to "completing upgrade" where it sat for over an hour. Tried reboot & F8 which at least got me to "the upgrade was not successful. Your previous version of Windows is being restored." Will try again another day ....
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Windows copies files to the disk, expands them, and restarts a couple times, install features, installs updates and Completes setup. During the install routine there can be signs of delay but usually its just a delay and setup will continue just fine. If setup does become non-responsive, you can do a cold boot and then boot up back the machine and boot Vista setup into safe mode to see if Vista will finish setup.
Tip: (If setup becomes non-responsive) Start the computer, when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Windows Setup press F8 on your keyboard and setup should continue. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dynastykang" wrote in message Hello everyone.. I can see that this has been asked before but I just have to ask again... when I install vista on my laptop it installs fine... when I install on my desktop it downloads all the new files for installation, copies the files to the windows folder as any install... then says that it needs to reboot and does so... the new vista boot screen comes up just fine then I get the vista background and a FREEZE everytime... or it will reboot and go back to the previous operating system! someone PLEASE help! this has happend with EVERY build of Vista that I have tried to install on my desktop all the way up to 5384.4. Once again PLEASE HELP!

"sherrye123" wrote in message

I made it all the way to "completing upgrade" where it sat for over an hour. Tried reboot & F8 which at least got me to "the upgrade was not successful. Your previous version of Windows is being restored." Will try again another day ....

Try this if you are having problems with installing Vista RC2 on a system where a previous version (beta2) was already installed.
* Use a Windows XP Recovery Console or alternate OS Boot.
* Boot the alternate os/recovery console
* Delete every vista file on the target partition, { users, programdata, program files, program files(x86), documents and settings } [NOTE: If you delete this, they are gone, so make sure you keep what you need :-) ] [NOTE: Make sure you delete on the VISTA partition and not your XP / Other...] [NOTE: Files may be "protected" so you need to take ownership of them then change file permissions, then remove system/hidden/read-only, then delete] [NOTE: Directory Opus has some problems with deleting a few of the folders]
* Use "fixboot" from the XP REcovery Console (boot the XP Install CD, Press R) [NOTE: This will un-plug the Vista Boot Manager.. ] * Delete the "boot" folder on the boot partition. * Delete the "bootmgr" file in the root of the boot partition.
* Reboot
* Insert VISTA Installation CD
* Install.
* Cross your fingers... :-)
(Thats basically what I did. I should mention that Vista destroyed my XP64 boot + installation after I installed Vista... but I managed to fix it...)
-- --- ///Terje Alexander Barth \\\///

Thanks, but all that's a bit over my head. Also, I managed to get it done with a simpler solution (at least seems simpler) -- after I got rolled back to Win XP I uninstalled several of the programs that were incompatible (especially the security suite and antispyware resident software), removed the login password, then installed Vista as an upgrade. SUCCESS!! Happy camper here, thanks for the info, tho.
"Terje Alexander Barth" wrote:

"sherrye123" wrote in message I made it all the way to "completing upgrade" where it sat for over an hour. Tried reboot & F8 which at least got me to "the upgrade was not successful. Your previous version of Windows is being restored." Will try again another day ....
Try this if you are having problems with installing Vista RC2 on a system where a previous version (beta2) was already installed.
* Use a Windows XP Recovery Console or alternate OS Boot.
* Boot the alternate os/recovery console
* Delete every vista file on the target partition, { users, programdata, program files, program files(x86), documents and settings } [NOTE: If you delete this, they are gone, so make sure you keep what you need :-) ] [NOTE: Make sure you delete on the VISTA partition and not your XP / Other...] [NOTE: Files may be "protected" so you need to take ownership of them then change file permissions, then remove system/hidden/read-only, then delete] [NOTE: Directory Opus has some problems with deleting a few of the folders]
* Use "fixboot" from the XP REcovery Console (boot the XP Install CD, Press R) [NOTE: This will un-plug the Vista Boot Manager.. ] * Delete the "boot" folder on the boot partition. * Delete the "bootmgr" file in the root of the boot partition.
* Reboot
* Insert VISTA Installation CD
* Install.
* Cross your fingers... :-)
(Thats basically what I did. I should mention that Vista destroyed my XP64 boot + installation after I installed Vista... but I managed to fix it...)
-- --- ///Terje Alexander Barth \\\///