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vista won't install on new h/drive

Discussion in 'Dell' started by nado-gr4a, Sep 21, 2010.

nado-gr4a Notebook Enthusiast

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I had to replace the hard drive on a dell insprion 1525 laptop and went to install vista home premium, every time i try to install vista it starts to load then crashes just after you see the cursor appearing on the black screen.

I have tried different disc's and even changed the bios settings to sata only. it's for a friend and it has the vista coa sticker on the bottom so i must install vista for him.

The old h/drive was dead so i could not ghost it to the new drive.

The funny thing is windows xp home installs OK then crashes just after it loads to the desktop..

anybody know whats wrong
thanks

nado-gr4a, Sep 21, 2010

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db336 Newbie

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Try another hard drive. I just ran into this exact problem, win7 32 and 64 and vista 32 and 64 all installed on a brand new hd but would crash hard at different spots. i got tired of wiping the drive and installing OSs so i got another hard drive and it installed and ran fine.

db336, Sep 21, 2010

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Might also check the RAM. Windows might be hitting higher levels of memory than the installation procedure does.

woofer00, Sep 22, 2010

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