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Troubles installing vist for the first time.

TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Ok, so I just bult a new computer and I'm having trouble installing vista. Every time it gets to the point where it has to reboot the computer restarts, posts, I press a key to boot from the dvd drive and when the installer loads it puts me back at step 1. I've gone through the setup again and when selecting the partition I want vista on it's got ~6gb on it so it's clear that it's installing. I tried putting the dvd drive first in the boot order but that didn't help. This is the first time I've ever installed vista so I'm completely lost. Anyone had this problem before?

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    are you sure it isn't just at the point where its finished copying the files from the dvd to the hdd and needs to boot from the hdd to continue the installation ?

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  • exoplasmexoplasm Gainfully Employed Near Blizzard HQRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yeah, when it reboots don't boot from the install disc.

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    are you sure it isn't just at the point where its finished copying the files from the dvd to the hdd and needs to boot from the hdd to continue the installation ?

    hah yeah that was it I feel dumb.

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