Windows Vista Can not reinstall Vista

[sfzab]

While working in Vista I experienced a recent system failure and I do not know if it was caused by a virus. I had AVG Free Edition installed and it was up to date.


I decided to perform a clean reinstall using the Vista DVD Installer, but at a certain point a message appears onscreen informing that Vista can not be installed, and that some required files may be missing or corrupt. It also points that there might be a hard disk failure.


However, I was able to perform a clean reinstall for openSuse to keep working with my PC. Before the Vista system failure, the double booting process had been working well for more than a year.


I would appreciate your kind help in knowing the available options that might exist in this case to be able to reinstall successfully Vista.

 

[kemical]

Hi sfzab,

could you provide more info on your system please as well as which version you trying to install. (eg OEM or upgrade)

 

[sfzab]

Hi sfzab,

could you provide more info on your system please as well as which version you trying to install. (eg OEM or upgrade)

Of course, the system is Vista Home Premium and it is the full version.

 

[vnvnvn2000]

Have you installed Vista? No floppy, no F6. There is a point for
installing SATA drivers if necessary.

"Adam Albright" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> Hi one and all,
>>>
>>> Not sure if anyone can help me with this as the problem seems widespread
>>> in
>>> various forms.
>
> Installing Vista on a SATA drive can present special problems.
> Generally if you are doing a clean install to a SATA drive you need to
> use the F6 method to PRELOAD SATA drivers very early on in the install
> process or Vista won't be able to boot. You also will need a floppy
> diskette to write these drivers to. You should find specific details
> in your motherboard manaul or the vendor's web site, Vista will prompt
> you went to hit F6 or whatever else your flavor of BIOS needs. If you
> do a install in place AND you can find find SATA drivers that work in
> BOTH XP and Vista then you can do a overwrite of your exhisting OS IF
> you install the new SATA drivers first. There could be other issues, I
> sure had some and still do, but I thankfully installed Vista to a IDE
> ATA drive and only use my SATA drives for data storage.
>
> If you're going to use RAID do NOT try to set that up first, way too
> convoluted, do that later after Vista is up and running.