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    MS-1722 vista install from USB stick

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by MNMinstrel, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. MNMinstrel

    MNMinstrel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone successfully done this?

    I created my bootable 4gb USB flash stick using this tutorial:

    http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

    I get through the hard drive format portion of the vista installer, it starts installing to about 1% and then I get a blue screen that says I have a hardware problem.

    Is there something I need to change in the bios, or does this just not work?

    EDIT: I should also note that the black and white "windows is loading" screen that happens before the installer menu comes up takes forever, like 5-10 minutes.
     
    MNMinstrel, Feb 13, 2009
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    MNMinstrel Notebook Enthusiast

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    I ended up just spending $50 on an optical drive. The time I wasted trying to get the USB drive to work was worth more than that.

    I did try updating the bios to 1.0R, but the problem did not change. From what I can see, it may just have been that the particular flash drive I used (a pqi intelligent 4GB) just wasn't worthy of being made bootable.

    I have 2 other usb drives, a lexar 256MB a 2GB micro center branded generic, both of which I was able to make bootable with DOS(I used the lexar to flash the bios).

    What was weird was that the bios showed 3 options for boot priority with the 2 smaller USB drives:

    1. USB
    2. SATA HD
    3. Network

    With the PQI drive, a menu for Hard drives showed up, and I could choose only the USB drive or the SATA hard drive. With the SATA drive selected my only boot options were:
    1. SATA HD
    2. Network

    With the USB drive selected from the hard drive menu, my only boot options were:
    1. USB drive
    2. Network

    It would not let me set both the SATA HD and the USB drive as bootable at the same time. The only way to get the PQI drive to boot was to remove the boot ability of the SATA drive. I suspect the vista install process was crashing because it needed to boot from the SATA drive.

    If I had another 4GB USB drive laying around, I'd try it again but I'll leave that for someone with more time. As far as I'm concerned, just spend the extra $50 on a Sony AD-7590S, you just pop it in and start installing your OS.
     
    MNMinstrel, Feb 14, 2009
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