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MrAnderson2121   11-12-2009 at 07:36:22 PM

I am working on a friends laptop to install vista after wiping the hard drive.
The issue arises when I try to boot from the CD a white bar loads across the bottom of the screen, saying Windows if Loading. After that it comes to a black screen with the normal small loading bar and Microsoft trademark. That only partially loads leaving the bar and words faded. When I boot with out the vista CD it says no operating system found like it should.
I have wiped it twice and I know the vista CD works. I have run HD diagnostics and it passes. Vista was originally installed and the reason for wipe was to clean it up from previous owner.

Any ideas, suggests, thoughts are greatly appreciated.

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badge   11-12-2009 at 08:34:29 PM

Perhaps when you 'wiped' the HD, it was rendered 'useless' for lack of a better word. I would try booting to a Windows XP CD and format the HD. After the HD is formatted, try booting to the Vista DVD and install the OS.

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MrAnderson2121   11-12-2009 at 09:09:07 PM

Thanks for the idea, i think i have a spare copy of xp lying around at home so i will try that tonight after work.

I will be back with the results.

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badge   11-12-2009 at 09:13:30 PM

I believe it will work. Get back with the results.

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MrAnderson2121   11-13-2009 at 03:14:30 AM

Well installation of XP froze at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen. Any other ideas on what might be wrong?

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badge   11-13-2009 at 03:40:41 AM

Well, when you say you 'wiped' the hard drive, how did you do it? The HD does not have to wiped, reformating a partition would wipe prior installations and prepare for a fesh installation of the OS. Be sure, CD is set as the first boot device in BIOS and boot the system. When asked to 'press any key to boot to CD' do so. Any chance to install the HD in another working system ans try formatting the drive there in Disk management? Sounds like the drive is either bad or corrupted.

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MrAnderson2121   11-13-2009 at 04:04:02 AM

I used killdisk and Dariks nuke and boot. The reason for wiping the drive was to remove data from the last owner. Boot order is CD first and the install started but stopped before getting very far. I would rather not resort to opening it up quite yet but it will probably come to that. Also I ran a HD diagnostic program and it said the drive was good.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 04:06:34 AM

Maybe someone knows of a program you could boot to to format the drive. I believe when you 'nuked' it, the drive corrupted. You just ned to find some software to boot to to format it corectly. WDC.com has software for formatting, but I do not believe they offer a bootable disk for Vista.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 04:08:37 AM

WD's data Lifeguard tools would format the drive, but I am not sure a bootable version is available for Vista.

http://support.wdc.com/product/dow [...] 12&lang=en

Another site.

http://www.bootdisk.com/


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badge   11-13-2009 at 04:20:20 AM

This says supports Vista. Try and make a bootable CD. Not really sure it will offer formatting the dive.

http://support.wdc.com/product/dow [...] 30&lang=en

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MrAnderson2121   11-13-2009 at 04:31:29 AM

Well the tools was for WD drives only. So time to open this thing up and try putting it in my desktop. Will be back with results.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 04:32:29 AM

Disk management should format the drive.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 04:35:50 AM

I invested in one of these SATA usb stations. This one is refurbished for $20. I use it often.
http://thermaltakestore.com/blacx-n0020028.html

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MrAnderson2121   11-13-2009 at 05:22:16 AM

Well the drive would not read since the voltages are diffrent for a laptop and i dont have a converter and couldnt change volts through BIOS. Looking for a formatting program to try starting from dos, the Western Digital stuff is for WD drives only and this is Toshiba.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 05:32:59 AM

I have to say I have never 'nuked' a hard drive. If I have trouble formatting a Vista installation on a SATA drive, I have alay had succes just booting to a Windows CD and formatting.

I'm surprised someone has not chimed in at this point with a suitable bootable software to format that HD.

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MrAnderson2121   11-13-2009 at 05:50:25 AM

I thank you for your ideas and effort. I really shouldnt have to format after wiping a drive since they both preform the same basic action. I am beginning to think that the computer maybe just be dying.

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badge   11-13-2009 at 06:13:20 AM

Kepp checking back. Someone may have a bootable software solution or otherwise.

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