first install ok second fails

My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message

My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

Its OK, I played around with the IDE PATA disk and I have now managed a successful installation of the Vista Beta 2 in twin boot with XP.
Not that anyone was about to answer my queries anyway.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message

I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

I've got a similar proble. Mine crashes at the first reboot and says the imagedrv.sys "critical system driver is missing or corrupt".
Any ideas? Thanks.
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:

Its OK, I played around with the IDE PATA disk and I have now managed a successful installation of the Vista Beta 2 in twin boot with XP.
Not that anyone was about to answer my queries anyway.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

What did you do with IDE PATA Disk to get it to work.
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:

Its OK, I played around with the IDE PATA disk and I have now managed a successful installation of the Vista Beta 2 in twin boot with XP.
Not that anyone was about to answer my queries anyway.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

I have a similar situation. What did you do to your PATA drive to get it to work for installing Vista.
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:

My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

It may have nothing to do with it but the PATA disk I used was 160GB in total. Although XP seemed to calculate its size OK I saw a reference to the fact that 48-bit LBA support for disks above 137GB is not available without a registry tweak. I applied that tweak and the Vista installation worked. The tweak is:
Registry Settings System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters] Value Name: EnableBigLba Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Mike Bernstein
"happykappy" wrote in message

What did you do with IDE PATA Disk to get it to work.
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:
Its OK, I played around with the IDE PATA disk and I have now managed a successful installation of the Vista Beta 2 in twin boot with XP.
Not that anyone was about to answer my queries anyway.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein

Oh and most importantly, I also re-formatted the PATA disk before the Vista installation.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message

It may have nothing to do with it but the PATA disk I used was 160GB in total. Although XP seemed to calculate its size OK I saw a reference to the fact that 48-bit LBA support for disks above 137GB is not available without a registry tweak. I applied that tweak and the Vista installation worked. The tweak is:
Registry Settings System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters] Value Name: EnableBigLba Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Mike Bernstein
"happykappy" wrote in message What did you do with IDE PATA Disk to get it to work.
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:
Its OK, I played around with the IDE PATA disk and I have now managed a successful installation of the Vista Beta 2 in twin boot with XP.
Not that anyone was about to answer my queries anyway.
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message I am one step further:
The problem described below was caused by installing a second non-essential driver at the initial installation stage at every installation attempt after the first. When I ignore the nag dialog for the second driver the first re-boot works as it should. However, I am now stuck at the second re-boot. On this occasion, the error given at boot is that 'Windows\system32\winload.exe' is missing or corrupt. This, of course is nonsense. The BCD is correctly looking at 'H:\Windows\system32\winload.exe', which file is confirmed to be present.
Why should the Vista boot-loader located on SATA drive C: not be able to find H:, which is located on a standard IDE PATA drive?
Mike Bernstein
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message My disk setup is as follows: C: SATA Raid 0, 220GB with Windows XP installed; D: on PATA disk, partition of about 85GB with data files; H: on PATA disk (same as D:) logical partition of about 68GB, empty.
I initially tried the Vista Beta 2 install from XP installing on H:. The SATA driver was given to the installation. This was successful. However installing a scanner driver from XP made the installation un-bootable. I had therefore to try again.
Before doing so I wanted to get my PC back to the starting point. Firstly I ran 'bootsect.exe' from XP to set the boot system back to the legacy format. I then deleted everything in my C: root that had to do with the Vista boot (the Boot directory and all the associated files as well as the 2 temporary directories). I then re-formatted my H: drive and tried the installation again. However, on this occasion the installation fails on the first re-boot. An error saying that a file cannot be found in one of the 2 temporary directories that are installed by the Vista setup on the C: drive.
I have repeated this several times with no luck. Something must have changed between the first installation and the subsequent attempts but I cannot figure what. I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea?
Mike Bernstein