Rebooting Error

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Hi! I was trying to install Windows Vista on my PC. Everything went well till
the step which should install the updates. How I understood it, the PC should
restart after having installed the updates, but I only get a message which
should more or less be like this: "Error: setup failed to reboot your
computer into the next step". I was trying to install Vista on a new
partition, keeping my old WinXP Pro on another one. One more thing: after
getting that error message, setup undoes all changes made during installation
progress. But when I try to boot my old WinXP system, I only get the
following message: "NTLDR is missing". I found a way to fix that, but I
thought it is worth telling.
Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks a lot!
 
This won't be much help but I get the exact same error. I'm running an ASUS
A8N5X (nF4) and installing on a clean 40GB partition of a clean 80GB IDE
drive. I've tried loading drivers (and not) in the setup but it doesn't make
a difference. I have to hit F8 to boot my SATA WinXP now. I'll keep trying.
Let me know if you find a solution.
 
I relpied last night that I was having the same problem but could not find a
solution. I formatted and installed again last night (fifth time) and got
the same error, again. So I gave up and went to bed. I got up this morning,
turned on the computer and jumped in the shower. When I came out, the Vista
install had continued!!!! Talk about weird. I did nothing. To say the
least I am very confused, and a wee bit happy that it finally worked.
Unfortunately I don't know why because I did NOTHING. Obviously this won't
help you but I thought I'd let you know anyhow. Good luck.
 
Hi from Luca, Italy.
Just the same things happened to me for 3 times... and the best came when I
turned off my pc and restarted it: XP was safe, untouched, it booted without
any trouble.
I hoped the Vista installation could reprise (as oPURT writes) but I
realized soon that all the Vista files had been wiped off just after the
Installer promped that damned error message...
Maybe I missed the "shower step" mentioned by oPURT :-)))
 
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