Cannot Install Vista RTM

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I have purchased a new machine and am unable to install Vista.

The machine has 2 hard drives, I can successfully install XP. There is some
way to get the debug logs for why this is failing, can someone point me to
those instructions.

The install goes thru copying Vista to the disk and then rebooting.
Occasionally I see the message where Vista is starting for the first time. It
never actually installs.

Again this is a new machine that was built for Vista. If anyone can suggest
how I can address this, I have spent literally weeks trying to get this
installed.

Thank you
 
Yes I have, I even bought a brand new drive and put it in. The install while
it always fails, seems to go further if I have XP on one of the drives.
 
Have you tried a search on the Vista .log files from your XP system. Not
sure which ones you might have when you fail, but may be a clue.
 
I just saw in another posting that if you have Virus Protection enabled in
your BIOS it will prevent the creation of the boot sector.
 
Vista would not boot for me anymore and I couldn't figure out why, so I
decided to format the partition it was installed on. After I did that, I
could not access the BCD (boot configuration data). XP can not access it
since it uses bootini. When I tried to reinstall Vista, since the BCD can
not be formatted with the partition, it detected that Vista was already
installed eventhough it wasn't.

So here's how I fixed it:
Vista 32 bit and 64 bit editions, are of course, different versions. So,
since my 64 bit edition crashed on one of my machines, and I couldn't
reinstall because of the BCD, I took the hard drive from one of my other
machines, that has Vista 32 bit edition on it, and connected it to my 64 bit
machine. With both hard drives connected, I tried to boot Vista. Since 32
bit edition BCD was not on the hard drive that I had Vista 64 bit, it
detected it as corrupted. I selected the recover option that then popped up
and it changed the BCD to work with the 32 bit Vista. I then disconnected
the drive that had Vista 32 installed. Now with the BCD changed to Vista 32
bit, it then allowed me to install Vista 64 bit, as the 64 bit BCD no longer
exsisted on that hard drive.
 
How does one track down why Vista will not run? I have booted this machine
into the Vista console, repartitioned and reformatted the drive and did a
clean install.

I searched all of the log files on the disk and cannot see anything that
tells me why this will not start. When I start up the machine and it tries to
repair itself the error message I get is that the system is unable to start
and there are some items listed such as Noboot failure, and failure during
setup and number 1168.

In the logs in the panther subdirectory it says that the first phase
succeeded.

I can see lots of directories on the c: drive (I am now using only one drive
to do a clean vista install. My board is an Intel D975XBX.

When I try to start in safe mode, I see lots of libs being loaded and after
the crc related dll is loaded the system reboots.
 
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