Vista Business will not install

hi, i am having a nightmare trying to install vista business. my computer
passes the upgrade advisor perfectly but when i a) try to upgrade from XP SP2
i get the error message 0xE0000100 failed to read from source and b) on a
clean install it says press any key to boot from DVD then a bar scrolls
across the screen to the end and stops. 24 hours later it is still there. im
really lost, i cant even get it to install let alone run. Please, somebody
help?

"lawyerb" <lawyerb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FB663480-7185-4CB5-A683-96C4E6307EE0@microsoft.com...
> hi, i am having a nightmare trying to install vista business. my computer
> passes the upgrade advisor perfectly but when i a) try to upgrade from XP
> SP2
> i get the error message 0xE0000100 failed to read from source and b) on a
> clean install it says press any key to boot from DVD then a bar scrolls
> across the screen to the end and stops. 24 hours later it is still there.
> im
> really lost, i cant even get it to install let alone run. Please, somebody
> help?

Is the machine Vista hardware compatible?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfj836

Sounds like the problem I had booting beta2 off my SATA burner. I guess
they added a driver for my controller because the release version works
now.


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Crito

Yes, all of my hardware is vista compatable. Running a AMD64 athlon 3000+,
4Gb Ram, ATI Radeon 600, 80GB HDD, DVD-RW.

"Mr. Arnold" wrote:

>
> "lawyerb" <lawyerb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FB663480-7185-4CB5-A683-96C4E6307EE0@microsoft.com...
> > hi, i am having a nightmare trying to install vista business. my computer
> > passes the upgrade advisor perfectly but when i a) try to upgrade from XP
> > SP2
> > i get the error message 0xE0000100 failed to read from source and b) on a
> > clean install it says press any key to boot from DVD then a bar scrolls
> > across the screen to the end and stops. 24 hours later it is still there.
> > im
> > really lost, i cant even get it to install let alone run. Please, somebody
> > help?
>
> Is the machine Vista hardware compatible?
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfj836
>

"lawyerb" <lawyerb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4C7BA9C8-3827-4AA6-9DDB-1A4CA08B83DE@microsoft.com...
> Yes, all of my hardware is vista compatable. Running a AMD64 athlon 3000+,
> 4Gb Ram, ATI Radeon 600, 80GB HDD, DVD-RW.
>

This is just me, unless you're doing an upgrade from Vista to Vista, like
Premium to Ultimate, then you should consider just wiping out/format the HD
and do a fresh install of the O/S, to avoid problems of a somewhat
different O/S exiting on the HD.

When moving to a different O/S like ME to Win 2k or Win 2K to XP on the same
machine, I just wipe out the existing O/S and do a fresh install.

If the upgrade CD for Vista allows you to format the HD and then lay down
the O/S fresh, then you might want to consider that.