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Thank you for all your help guys, but still having problems....
downloaded iso verified checksum... mounted image... copied all folders onto partition and ran setup locally... have also burned image onto dvd uaing nero... setup still fails in the extraction sequence... please note files are sucessfully copied on to installation drive... in this case c: ... I think i'm nearly there! its just a process of elimination!
Cheers guys.... Paul

Try to burn the big image file (not mount it) with ImgBurn and if needed, change bios to boot from cd/dvd. Does it still give errors? If no, then try running setup from the burned dvd again inside the OS. If it then still fails then message back here..
"PaulBristolUK" wrote in message

Thank you for all your help guys, but still having problems....
downloaded iso verified checksum... mounted image... copied all folders onto partition and ran setup locally... have also burned image onto dvd uaing nero... setup still fails in the extraction sequence... please note files are sucessfully copied on to installation drive... in this case c: ... I think i'm nearly there! its just a process of elimination!
Cheers guys.... Paul

Thanks for your message, yes... have burnt the image file... have booted to dvd... have run setup from within XP... still failed... But still smiling hoping!!!
Cheers
"droid" wrote:

Try to burn the big image file (not mount it) with ImgBurn and if needed, change bios to boot from cd/dvd. Does it still give errors? If no, then try running setup from the burned dvd again inside the OS. If it then still fails then message back here..
"PaulBristolUK" wrote in message Thank you for all your help guys, but still having problems....
downloaded iso verified checksum... mounted image... copied all folders onto partition and ran setup locally... have also burned image onto dvd uaing nero... setup still fails in the extraction sequence... please note files are sucessfully copied on to installation drive... in this case c: ... I think i'm nearly there! its just a process of elimination!
Cheers guys.... Paul

Ok well there's little to go on, if you are a very tech user you might be able to figure the problem out by reading the logs..
But either way you should consider submitting a bug report .. Here are my generic instructions for finding the log files if you didn't already:
1. Get the HDD you installed Vista on to 2000/XP/2003 computer. Start-Run-> diskmgmt.msc Figure out which of the displayed drives is the correct drive and try assign drive letters to the partitions. If the drive isn't visible on the disk management console or don't allow letters assigned to it, then there is some other problem blocking (corrupt partition table perhaps).
Now you should have your old XP and possibly other (vista partition if setup got so far) with drive letters.
2. change folder options to make hidden folders visible before searching 3. search all partitions* **, including the Vista one for .log files. Submit these logs to microsoft using Beta Client.
*If there was no vista partition in diskmgmt.msc: There should be a hidden, weird named folder, in the root of the XP drive and the setup logs are somewhere under there (search ..log).
**If setup proceeded far enough for the Vista partition to appear, the logs are under Vistas Windows\INF
These are the primary setup logs, there are others but these are important for setup issues:
setupapi.app.log setupapi.dev.log
"PaulBristolUK" wrote in message

Thanks for your message, yes... have burnt the image file... have booted to dvd... have run setup from within XP... still failed... But still smiling hoping!!!
Cheers
"droid" wrote:
Try to burn the big image file (not mount it) with ImgBurn and if needed, change bios to boot from cd/dvd. Does it still give errors? If no, then try running setup from the burned dvd again inside the OS. If it then still fails then message back here..
"PaulBristolUK" wrote in message Thank you for all your help guys, but still having problems....
downloaded iso verified checksum... mounted image... copied all folders onto partition and ran setup locally... have also burned image onto dvd uaing nero... setup still fails in the extraction sequence... please note files are sucessfully copied on to installation drive... in this case c: ... I think i'm nearly there! its just a process of elimination!
Cheers guys.... Paul