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    Vista Installation reboot loop

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by surfasb, Jul 7, 2008.

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    Anyone ever experienced this? During my installation, I got a file not found error and rebooted. Now setup loads into a blank screen with a mouse pointer. Mouse pointer works great. But it is a blank screen and it looks like I'm stuck in
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    Well I'm stuck in this loop til I find the time to pull out this harddrive and use another computer to wipe it clean. It is not a tool-less case and I'm too lazy to break open the case.
     
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    Is the DVD burned? There's a good chance you may have burned the DVD too fast (it's always recommended to burn DVDs like this at 2x). Quite a few people have similar problems.
     
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    I got out of the reboot loop by using a bootCD and using diskpart. now to get Vista to recognize my drives.....

    It keeps giving me a message "cannot find a system volume to meet its bullcrap criteria."

    I've never seen this crap before. It can see my disks and I can select them. I'm gonna try this active partition bullcrap.
     
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    well I fixed that piece of crap installation program. It seems my dynamic disks (Raid 5) maybe were confusing the setup program. After disabling them in BIOS, I left setup with just one choice in disks to install and it forfeited.
     
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