Vista Install Trouble

[Whitter]

Hi Guys

Just got my copy of Vista today and having a little trouble installing it.

I have three hard drives installed in the following order.

20gig with Windows 98
250gig with Windows XP
250gig ready for vista

When I boot from the Visit DVD the installer loads but just sits there at the point where the language selector would normally display.

Any ideas?

 

[Cozman]

Hi

now this may or may not be of any help but a similar thing happened to me before ... and the daftest thing solved it for me

i had for no real reason disconected my floppy drive .. and i couldnt get vista to get to the language page it would just sit there doing nothing then eventually reboot .. so by accident i reconnected the floppy cable and way and behold .. vista installed normally and at the point it previously hung it was accessing the floppy .. fortunately i have an option in the BIOS of report no FDD to the OS which is now enabled as i totally removed the floppy from pc & on the last install Ultimate x64 OEM no such problems

as i say probably totally unrelated but who knows computers can be fickle things when MS is concerned

Cozman

 

[Whitter]

Think I've found what the problem is but I don't really know why it is.

The two drives that currently have 98 and XP on are both IDE drives. Since I upgraded my system I've plugged into the back of these hard drives IDE to SATA converters. Which I'm guessing that Vista is not liking as when I unplug the drives everything works.

Anyone had/having an experience like this?