dual boot installation vista 32 bit

I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message

I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

I have been having the same problem, installing to a 2.2Ghz celeron system with 512MB ram. The upgrade advisor says I can use Vista; and I am trying to install on an IDE drive; no driver needed.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

The hard drive I am installing to is an internal WD 20GB IDE drive. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

I got my problem fixed, by disabling Norton GoBack, then booting from the DVD, and installing from there. If you're running GoBack, try disabling it and then trying again. GoBack and Vista seem to have a conflict with eachother.
"rabuf" wrote:

The hard drive I am installing to is an internal WD 20GB IDE drive. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

After verifying the checksum of my download and burning several DVDs at 2X; I tried installation booting up from the DVD (before Go Back is loaded), installing in XP (got a little further - loaded files & got 30% into file expansion before failure) & installing in XP safe mode (same results as XP install). I am installing to my secondary hard drive which is an empty, primary partitioned WD 20GB IDE drive.
I am using an ECS N2U400-A motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 2800 processor, 1GB PC2700 DDR ram, WD 120 GB IDE, WD 20GB IDE, ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MB AGP, 100 MB IDE ZIP drive. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"mastertr" wrote:

I got my problem fixed, by disabling Norton GoBack, then booting from the DVD, and installing from there. If you're running GoBack, try disabling it and then trying again. GoBack and Vista seem to have a conflict with eachother.
"rabuf" wrote:
The hard drive I am installing to is an internal WD 20GB IDE drive. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!

I have booted up from the DVD, tried installing from XP (got a little further-actually loaded files and failed at 30% of file expansion), tried installing from safe mode (same results as installing from XP) & verified the checksum of my 32 bit download (2X burned several dvds). I am installing to my internal second hard drive WD 20 GB (primary partition & empty)
I am using an AMD Athlon XP 2800 processor, 1GB PC2700 DDR ram, Asus Radeon 9200SE 128Mb AGP, WD 120GB 7200RPM EIDE, WD 20GB EIDE, ECS N2U400-A motherboard -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"mastertr" wrote:

I got my problem fixed, by disabling Norton GoBack, then booting from the DVD, and installing from there. If you're running GoBack, try disabling it and then trying again. GoBack and Vista seem to have a conflict with eachother.
"rabuf" wrote:
The hard drive I am installing to is an internal WD 20GB IDE drive. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Do you have a drive type that requires loading a driver?
"rabuf" wrote in message I started a clean install booting up from the DVD. I used a primary partitioned second hard drive to load Vista on. I got as far as the installation sequence screen and received an error message. "an error occured while preparing windows setup to boot into the next stage of setup"
After repeated attempts and cold boots I kept receiving the same message. -- I''m Down the Tubes with the whales!