After selecting the destination drive in the RC1 installer, I get the following error message: "Verify that the installation sources are accessible and restart Setup." (Error code: 0xC0000005) I am running setup.exe from a subfolder on my D: drive and installing to drive E:. When I tried to run setup.exe from the image using Daemon Tools, the installer quite immediately after starting...

I am attempting to perform an upgrade install from Beta 2 to RC1 and getting: "Windows was unable to create a required installation folder. Error Code: 0x80030309". There is plenty of free space available on the primary partition. What else could be causing this error?

Being positively impressed with Vista RC1 on a standalone drive, I'm now ready to take the plunge on another PC currently configured as dual boot (Win 2000 on C: and Win XP Pro on D:). I want to install Vista on C: to replace Win 2000. I realize that C: will have to be formatted to accomplish this, as it is currently FAT32. Should I manually format C: as NTFS, then attempt to install Vista by...

No matter how many times I click the Activate now link nothing happens. I've tried left clicking, right clicking, hitting enter while hovering over it, etc. When I installed it, I told it that I had Vista Ultimate and skipped the activation sequence. Please someone help me. I can't even change the key, none of the links work in that section of the control panel. I don't want to get stuck...

I have a PC with a Gigabyte nForce 4 SLI motherboard - GA-K8NXP-SLI I am using NVIDIA RAID 0 (Striped) and also the Silicon Image 3114 on board Raid. I use the NVIDIA RAID for the OS, applications etc. and the Silicon Image for work files and backup etc. I have successfully installed and used the beta2 versions of Vista. I have since attempted fresh installs of Vista RC1 x86 and Vista RC1...

Hi there, I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help!

Hi, just wondering if it is possible to triple boot, by that I mean Win XP, Vista and Linux. Anyone doen it, or even hear dof it being done? cheers.

how to install windows vista rc1 after i burn iso file to dvd, and can i install it like install windows xp? and the product is the key that microsoft sent it with this e-mail? - from - subject Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is Now Available . Installing RC1 requires a valid Microsoft Product Key. You should use the same Product Key that was provided to...

Hi, I just wanted to install Vista RC1. After choosing the first language settings, I was prompted to a dialog, that a CD / DVD Driver, which is necessary, could not be found. Since every Windows Installation CD I ever have seen, has the standard CD / DVD Drivers on it, I just don't know now which kind of driver I have to install.

i have a gtx 7800 graphics card and have installed the latest drivers but my screen keeps on going black for a second then is ok for 5 secs, and keeps on repeating this. anyone else had this problem ? and any solutions ? thank you.

I have an AMD 64 32200+ , Geforce fx5200 video, and 1 gig ram. I have installed Vista successfully from Windows XP. Now I am curious on the repartitioning from booting from the DVD. However, when I attempt to boot off the DVD the setup appears to start but then it goes to a black screen with this little floating box that says Video Mode not supported. Just wondering if anyone seen this...

Does anyone have spare Vista CR1 activation code ?

Hello, Can anyone let me know what's the build release number of the latest RC1 anounced recently by MS? Thanks e.

Hi, I was using my vista RC1 with my old 6600GT PCIE and all worked perfectly. But yesterday I bought a new video card (XFX 7950GX2) but windows vista doesn´t support this video card with their native installation drivers. When I start installation from DVD ... it turns corrupt with blue screen when is trying to display desktop. Using safe boot displays desktop but he needs to finish...

Can we install RC1 over pre RC1? Thanks M. Trussell

hi, i have a problem, installing windows vista RC1. I wanted installing a clean copy of RC1, an it worked fine, but during the installation process an error appeared: "Registry files couldn't be written during installation" (Step: Updating)

While trying to install RC1, following the scan, i get a stop message...with instructions that I must remove "HP ProtectTools Security Manager" before I can install RC1. I have a new HP Pavillion dv5100z notebook computer, (it is NOT one of the business computers, which do have the Security Manager feature). After examining the Registry, Program Files, Start Up and Services, I found there...

I have been testing most beta build releases of Vista for some time now on my Asus A6000 (A6VC) laptop. Having downloaded RC1 this morning - a blue screen STOP message appears informing me of ACPI problems. This is happening for both clean and XP upgrade installation types. I appreciate that this is more likely to be a problem with the ASUS Bios for this laptop - but it seems odd that this...

I've been testing Vista Builds for the past 6 months on an Asus A6000 series laptop (A6VC) and haven't had any installation issues until installing RC1 today. Having tried both clean and upgrade installations, I'm getting a blue screen STOP message informing me of ACPI problems. I'm sure this is more a BIOS problem than a RC1 problem, but it does seem strange that only this latest build is...

I have Vista beta 2 on the 1st partition(H) of my 2nd HDD. I finally got the RC1 file to download with out being corrupted. The upgrade advisor told me I could install RC1 to the I: drive which is on HDD2. I tried that and the process seemed to go all the way through, however, RC1 didn't install on I:, the only thing that was put on I: was pagefile.sys. What is up with this??. Since...