Mine was easy to discount given the age of the machine. Yours definitely
seems like it should work. I'd call MS tech support.

"Cosmicray" wrote:

Hey Brian and Doug!

Same problem he Disk read error after first reboot. Quite obviously there
is no decent boot-sector when Vista tries to reboot.

My machine is fairly new (1 year) and passed the Upgrade Advisor without any
problems (2GB of RAM; Intel Pentium 4; 3.2GHz; 1GB L2 Cache; GeForce 6600 LE)

I also ran out of ideas what the probably cause might be ...

Mike


"Doug Robmine" wrote:



"Brian Adams" wrote:

I have burned the final Vista ISO image from my MSDN Subscriber Downloads and
installed it. I have tried XP Upgrades and clean installs on several
different drives. It appears to install/upgrade successfully each time.
When it does the initial reboot I get the error: "A disk read error occurred
press ctrl-alt-del to reboot" every time. What are the BIOS requirements for
Vista? Is it possible my machine is too old? I have a Dell Dimension XPS
T800r. I have downloaded and installed the latest BIOS (A11) from Dell's
site and still no dice. My machine [barely] passes the Vista Upgrade Advisor
tests (800MHz, 768MB RAM, GeForce 5500 FX).

I have the same problem on a similar machine Dell Dimension XPS T600r and
cannot find any way around this problem. I think maybe the machine is just
too old for Vista so maybe time to upgrade to a higher spec. PC.