I got a copy of windows vista from a family friend, and I’m having g a lot of troubles installing. First of all I tried to install to a external USB hard drive, but realized that my mother board didn’t support USB booting after a day of frustration.
So i back up my second hard drive (internal) and reformat/partition it. I stick the dvd in and the install thing comes up, the install goes perfectly till it’s just about done, then it says “error cant find blahblah.dll , reinstalling might fix this problem”.
So I reformat that partition again, and go to install, now windows vista cant see my 2nd drive. The bios can see the drive, and when I run the setup from xp it can see the drive (if I try to install from xp it restarts after half the install and says the drive cannot be accessed). When I go to boot off the vista DVD to install it doesn’t see my second hard drive at all.
Do I have to format the drive specially to be able to boot from it? Someone help me!
Drive stats:
Western Digital 200gb 7200rpm
Thanks in advance,
3dnirvana