Help to self-install windows vista on G1S

I have recently bought an Asus G1S notebook from GenTechPC, and upgraded the harddrive to the 7200 rpm 160 GB HD. When I did this I forgot to select to have windows pre-installed, so I had to install Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) and all drivers myself.

The laptop came with an Asus Recovery DVD and a cd with drivers that I used during the self-install. I first put in the DVD which started to install Vista (I think..), and after a while it asked to insert the cd with drivers, so I did that and it began installing drivers. After a while a box came up asking whether I wanted to restart the pc now, or wait and restart the pc later. I thought the install was done so I selected to restart the pc now although there was a command box (one of those black boxes showing what was installing of drivers) in the background. (i think it was done installing or simply running something called Sleep 30, Sleep -s, then sleep 40 and sleep 80 (or something like that (don't know if its relevant or tells you anything)). When the computer started up again a loading bar with Microsoft Corporation below is running after the standard Asus Gaming logo comes up, but then an error message comes up saying:

Install Windows
Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml]. The answer file is invalid. The error was detected at line 33 column 12 of the answer file.

Should I format my laptop and install it all again? In that case, how do I format the laptop. Another newbie question: If I formatted the pc, would it affect the BIOS drivers which the laptoop came installed with? it doesn't seem to help inserting either the recovery dvd or the drives cd when starting up the laptop, the error message still comes up.

If you might know anything that might work or have had experience installing it all yourself please post a preply here,
Thanks

 

OK this is really simple (I DID THE EXACT SAME THING):

HERE IS THE GOLDEN RULE: After you put in the Driver CD, LEAVE THE COMPUTER ALONE.
When the computer is done the power light at the front of the computer will turn off.

Here are the step the install process will go through:

1) You have to start over (that dialog box that said restart, you are supposed to click RESTART LATER).

2) Install Vista again.

3) Insert the Driver CD when it tells you too.

4) When you see the "Would you like to restart?" DONT RESTART, IT IS A LIER.

5) Select " Restart Later", or just leave it sitting up on the screen (it will not hurt anything).

6) The driver installation process will take about an hour and it will run a bunch of commands in the command prompt.

7) No matter what you think, The computer is not frozen (sometimes it will sit there for a while but trust me it is not frozen).

8) Then you will see the Vista desktop and some stuff will come up on the screen DONT CLICK ANYTHING (It says something like "Would you like to erase the Installation Files" Don't click this because ASUS wrote a program that will do it and they also wrote a program that will close that dialog box)

9) It will finish the install

10) It will Shut Down and the power light will turn off

11) You can now boot it up.


A quick note about this post:
All of the bold is not me yelling at you I promise, it just places emphasis. I am a nice person I swear hehe.

 

Thanks! it worked now I let it alone until it all was done and vista starts up normally

I have one more question though, when I installed Vista again I used the recovery DVD and chose to boot up from the dvd. When it installed does it automatically format the hard-drive or at least delete the partially installed vista that I had unsuccessfully installed from before?

 

Yes it does. You get a fresh start as if the previous install never happened.