Help! Vista DVD boots into Black screen on a HP computer.

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Hi, everyone,

I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC:
Intel Pentium 4 processor 517
1 GB DDR2-SDRAM
200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore
1 DVD drive 16x
1 DVD writer 16x

Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom
the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When
the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited
for 3 hours but nothing happens.

When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files,
decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which
remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give
up that installation.

I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but
to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the
same problem.

At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual
machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.

Hope that someone has a good suggestion.

Regards,

Marc
 
I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x
with ImgBurn.
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It's not the iso image. With the iso image I managed to install Vista on a
virtual machine.

Regards,

Marc
 
Hi, Chris,

I followed your advise and burned the iso at 4x speed. But to no avail, the
vista dvd still boots into a black screen. I also tried installing from
within XP. At a certain point the pc reboots. It boots into a menu with the
following options:
Previous Windows
Windows setup
XP restore console (it might be something else)

I pressed F8 on Windows setup and selected safe mode. Then I noticed that
vista halts when it reaches "disk.sys". What is this disk.sys? Is there
still a way to install Vista?
Thanks for all your efforts.

Regards,

Marc (aka Alagondar)
 
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