vista install failure

I tried to install to unused space on the drive this failed when I look at the drive with partition magic it lists the whole drive as one partition marked as other has anyone ran into this problem and how do I undo it?

When you say unused space I assume you mean non-partitioned. If so, Vista should partition it and install. If it isn't clean space (non-partitioned), I don't know what would happen but can guess that it would take the whole drive. You can use Partition Magic to resize your partition to make room for Vista. Vista and Office took about 10gig on mine so I would plan on about 20gig to 40gig if you are going for games etc. "Joe" wrote:

I tried to install to unused space on the drive this failed when I look at the drive with partition magic it lists the whole drive as one partition marked as other has anyone ran into this problem and how do I undo it?

I want to add to the install problem I cleaned every thing off the drive and tried a clean install got the error # 80070241 I am running ASUS K8N-E deluxe with AMD 64 bit 2.8 m, 1 gig of memory 35 g partition any help would be nice.
"Joe" wrote:

I tried to install to unused space on the drive this failed when I look at the drive with partition magic it lists the whole drive as one partition marked as other has anyone ran into this problem and how do I undo it?

I've received a disk from Microsoft (I ordered it rather than downloaded given the installation problems listed here). I tried to install it on two computers, basically state of the art brand new dual core Dell's with more than enough power to run Vista. On both systems, after the install begins and Vista looks for updates on the internet, it states that it can't get an internet connection (even though it is connected). I "ignore" the updates, finish the install, it seems to go to the very end in each case, but on the final re-boot it reverses the install and goes back to XP for some reason.
How broken is this version? Does anybody have any suggestions for me?

I've received a disk from Microsoft (I ordered it rather than downloaded given the installation problems listed here). I tried to install it on two computers, basically state of the art brand new dual core Dell's with more than enough power to run Vista. On both systems, after the install begins and Vista looks for updates on the internet, it states that it can't get an internet connection (even though it is connected). I "ignore" the updates, finish the install, it seems to go to the very end in each case, but on the final re-boot it reverses the install and goes back to XP for some reason.
How broken is this version? Does anybody have any suggestions for me?

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:10:02 -0700, Grazen wrote:

I've received a disk from Microsoft (I ordered it rather than downloaded given the installation problems listed here). I tried to install it on two computers, basically state of the art brand new dual core Dell's with more than enough power to run Vista. On both systems, after the install begins and Vista looks for updates on the internet, it states that it can't get an internet connection (even though it is connected). I "ignore" the updates, finish the install, it seems to go to the very end in each case, but on the final re-boot it reverses the install and goes back to XP for some reason.
How broken is this version? Does anybody have any suggestions for me?

Dunno mate,
My disk has similar problems, will not install clean for love or money. I get around it by putting a basic XP on the HDD first then doing an upgrade install. Not ideal but it works for me, I suspect its hardware related not the actual DVD cos I clean installed it on another PC I was fixing for somebody without problems.
Just stick XP on first if you want to try it, dont bother activating or downloading updates just put the basic hardware drivers in - chipset, ethernet drivers etc (no sound or video drivers) and bung Vista in on top as an upgrade, see if that works.
Jonah