Help Please, Error when trying to install Vista

martin9887 · 24 Jan 2007 at 13:17

I set my bios to boot from CD it says loading filesm after that is done it says,

windows has encountered a problem communicating with a devive attached to my computer, it says something with removable storage device, I have nothing attached though, im really confused.

The status code is: 0xc00000e9

I have tried using mouse/keyboard into ps2 port but no joy.

My hard drive is sata seagate 7200.10, dvd drive is samsung sata.

Mobo - evga 680i

Help please. Thanks.

REDD555 · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:57

sure you haven't left a memory card in a card reader or printer card slots by accident? I had this the other day and it confused the heck out of me! LOL

martin9887 · 24 Jan 2007 at 15:40

No, I dont have a printer or anything like that, I did get past it, I plugged in my old ide dvd drive and it worked.

REDD555 · 24 Jan 2007 at 16:39

Nice one!! Ah well, just thought one of my past nightmares might have been useful for someone else! LOL.