Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/ 2008-12-02T00:15:55-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-08-12T23:40:10-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542846 Well at least you can contact the OEM for assistance. They shuold at least have some ideas as to the problem text/html 2008-08-12T19:31:31-05:00 leigh wiles http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542799 i am getting the same error code but i am using an oem off the shelf copy of vista home premium 64bit and i cant firgure a solution out lol.... text/html 2008-08-10T14:09:07-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542640 I got it to work! YAY! How you ask? I just kept burning more and more copies of the DVD until one worked. I had a feeling it was my laptop's bad burner. I made seven coasters out of all this but at least I got Vista installed. text/html 2008-08-10T02:33:11-05:00 Tam the Bam http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542631 I had a similar problem back in March this year when I tried to install Vista on my<br /> old folks new pc i built for them. I had to reinstall their XP for them.<br /> I gave them my old MoBo (Asus P5W Deluxe) and my E6600 cpu. It's the least <br /> I could do for them. After all, they brought me into this world <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"><br /> <br /> I posted a similar thread back then too, and not much could be done.However, I didn't<br /> install the SATA Drivers. Purely because I'd had vista installed (without sata drivers)<br /> when I used the motherboard. I feared it had something to do with the harddisk tho<br /> (which I also gave them - 80GB Maxtor UGGHH). I really do think this was the root<br /> of the problem that HDD! text/html 2008-08-09T14:39:27-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542617 How do I get my BIOS to boot from a small partition on my HDD that contains all the contents of the ISO file? I keep getting an error saying the disk is not bootable. and to insert a bootable floppy disk, even though I didn't tell it to boot from the floppy drive. text/html 2008-08-08T23:46:23-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542599 Well there are no SATA drivers on my motherboard's CD, just RAID. I have re-downloaded (3 hrs) and re-burned (1.5 hrs at 0.5x) the iso file and now the install finishes the &quot;copying files&quot; part in 2 seconds and errors out (same code) at 0% on the &quot;expanding files&quot; part. More internet searching only found me one person on this planet who had a similar problem and the solution someone gave him was to copy the install files to a HDD because burning a Vista install DVD can be finicky. So I used my Ubuntu Live CD and tried unarchiving the iso file but it only extracted a readme file saying the iso contents were of a UDF filesystem (what???) so now I am stumped. So much for first impressions of Vista...<br /> <br /> Oh I also attempted the install using an ancient PATA DVD drive I had but still no luck.<br /> <br /> EDIT: Removed a part about partitioning my HDD into a UDF because it failed epically. text/html 2008-08-07T19:11:55-05:00 Computer User http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542513 &quot;If the installer needed SATA drivers, how was it able to copy 23% of the files to the HDD?&quot;<br /> <br /> That's what I was wondering last time. I think the reason is Vista already have some kind of default driver for Sata and Raid, but it won't bug out until some point down the installation. I tried the install 3 or 4 times, all crashed during different points, that's why I thought it was some kind of overheating. Until, I used the right drivers, it installed completely, did that again just to make sure, again successful with no problem. So for me, it's the driver. Good luck.<br /> text/html 2008-08-07T00:42:24-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542433 Darn. I just erased my Vista DVD and I am in the process of downloading another copy on an old 98 system I have. If the installer needed SATA drivers, how was it able to copy 23% of the files to the HDD? text/html 2008-08-06T23:41:21-05:00 TWolfe http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542423 I agree with User. you have to install SATA Driver when/during the install, press F6. SATA drivers are on the Motherboards Drivers Disc. Something like &quot;Make drivers disc&quot;. text/html 2008-08-06T22:47:12-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542415 Well I just have a single SATA drive in there and it came with no driver cd. I am going to try re-downloading and re-burning. Too bad the downloader only works on Windows, which I don't have at the time!<br /> <br /> And that stock Intel cooler was evil. The multi-lingual instructions just said to push the pins down until you heard a click but I pushed as hard as I could on one of them and I never heard a click. The CPU is idling at 44 C so I guess I got it right. text/html 2008-08-06T22:15:47-05:00 Computer User http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#542414 &quot;I nearly killed myself trying to install that freaking cpu cooler.&quot;<br /> <br /> It wouldn't be that bad, would it, LOL. Try to see if you have all the correct drivers for Sata / Raid drives during installation. I encountered similar error before, it crashed in random point of the install, and I almost thought it's the north bridge overheating. But turned out it was because I forgot to load the Raid driver for Vista 64. Once loaded, problem solved. I was running Raid 0, not sure if you're too.<br /> <br /> text/html 2008-08-06T19:51:09-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72184/#0 Well I assembled my first computer today! I was amazed that there were no catastrophic errors, despite the fact that I nearly killed myself trying to install that freaking cpu cooler. Anyway, I pop in my self-burned Vista Business 64 DVD and go through the installation. All goes well until I get to the 21% point. I then get an error message that says something along the lines of &quot;The installation files could not be found. Make sure the file is available and restart the installation.&quot; It also has an error code 0x8007045D. A Yahoo! search of the error code only gives me a windows media player error. <br /> <br /> Now, I downloaded this copy of Vista from my school via the MSDN academic alliance. I am willing to bet my crappy DVD burner messed up the installation disk and all I have to do is request a free (+ s&amp;h) DVD from MSDN but I want to make sure that is the problem. <br /> <br /> Until I get Vista up, I must use my Ubuntu 8.04 live CD.