Re: Disk Read Error During Install

What else would cause this issue? The drive has no errors on it.
I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Vista's NTFS vs the current XP's
version of NTFS? No where does it say that its converting the files to the
new NTFS.

The NTFS are compatible.. so that's not the problem.

You must supply the correct driver for the hard drive controller...

that's the problem.. you will go the the motherboards site and look for vista drivers for the controller,
then when installing vista, there is some option to supply a driver.

vista is ***.. I told you so.. but you thought I was just being mean to you.

Im not being mean to you, Im being mean to the crapiest version of windows called vista.

Tell your son that he is inviting a long list of trouble that will never end with vista..

he hasn't started yet and vista has already frustrated you .. lol

When I talked about linux before, I did not mean it was better than windows (any OS is better than Vista), I meant that it was cheaper than the $20 you gave for
the beta quality OS called vista.




"JCO" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eS740Mq7IHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Guess I will try another NG

"JCO" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uYjVe3p7IHA.5596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We are running XP Pro (sp2).

My son, preparing for College, was able to purchase Vista Ultimate upgrade
for 20 bucks. Can't beat that. However, when trying to upgrade to Vista,
we get a disk read error. This happens during the first reboot...after
vista has copied the files to the harddrive. So at that point, the system
is screwed and can no longer boot.

Fortunately, we have some intelligence dealing with computers. We have an
image of XP Pro saved on another partition. We did a restore and tried a
second time (getting the same error). I read somewhere that the cluster
size of NTFS has to be 4. Thought that was our solution but when I booted
with Acronis Disk Director, it says that we are already at a cluster size 4.
So that is not our issue.

What else would cause this issue? The drive has no errors on it.
I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Vista's NTFS vs the current XP's
version of NTFS? No where does it say that its converting the files to the
new NTFS.

After giving up on this, we decided to do the second option which is a clean
install of Vista Ultimate (which apparently is on the same DVD). We got the
same disk error. The disk has several partitions. I don't think that is
an issue.

I was one of the beta testers for Vista .. long before it came out. I
warned my son that there's no reason to change his Operating System but he
still wants to do it.

Any suggestions?
Thanks



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