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I just got a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 32 bit DVD from my friend. He burned it at a nice slow speed (I think 2x) and I started an install booting off the DVD (not in XP). It copied all the files succesfully, expanded all the files successfully, installed all features successfully, and after it installed updates it rebooted. It shows the moving bar like when your booting up windows and under it "Copyright Microsoft 2006" but nothing about Vista. It does this for about 5 sec and then I get the Windows Error Recovery screen. It gives options for normal startup, last known good configuration startup, and safe mode startup but all of these boot for about 5 sec and then return to the error recovry page. It said to boot off a Windows startup disc and use System Recovory Options. I tried booting off the Vista DVD but all I get is the OS installation setup screen.
Does any one have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Joshua Grizzard

Josh, I had the same experience when installing Vista and I could not find anyway to get out of this loop except to restore an image of the disk I had made earlier.
If you booted off the DVD, did you make selection where on the drive Vista where you wanted Vista to be installed? If not, you have probably upgraded XP with Vista.
Here is a web site that may help you with this issue. Good luck. http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/188
-- Regards, From Whidbey
"Josh Grizzard" wrote:

I just got a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 32 bit DVD from my friend. He burned it at a nice slow speed (I think 2x) and I started an install booting off the DVD (not in XP). It copied all the files succesfully, expanded all the files successfully, installed all features successfully, and after it installed updates it rebooted. It shows the moving bar like when your booting up windows and under it "Copyright Microsoft 2006" but nothing about Vista. It does this for about 5 sec and then I get the Windows Error Recovery screen. It gives options for normal startup, last known good configuration startup, and safe mode startup but all of these boot for about 5 sec and then return to the error recovry page. It said to boot off a Windows startup disc and use System Recovory Options. I tried booting off the Vista DVD but all I get is the OS installation setup screen.
Does any one have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Joshua Grizzard

Thank you very much for responding. I backed up all my files before installing Vista so I'm not worried about recovering files from XP. When booting off the DVD, I deleted the partition XP was on. It's sort of a test computer so I'm planning on only running Vista on it. I thought I would probably need to restore the disk image I created and try reinstalling Vista, but before you do something like that it's nice to see it in writing! Thanx a bunch for replying.
P.S. One last quick question. Were you ever able to install Vista successfully after you restored the disk image? -- Joshua Grizzard
"Islander" wrote:

Josh, I had the same experience when installing Vista and I could not find anyway to get out of this loop except to restore an image of the disk I had made earlier.
If you booted off the DVD, did you make selection where on the drive Vista where you wanted Vista to be installed? If not, you have probably upgraded XP with Vista.
Here is a web site that may help you with this issue. Good luck. http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/188
-- Regards, From Whidbey
"Josh Grizzard" wrote:
I just got a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 32 bit DVD from my friend. He burned it at a nice slow speed (I think 2x) and I started an install booting off the DVD (not in XP). It copied all the files succesfully, expanded all the files successfully, installed all features successfully, and after it installed updates it rebooted. It shows the moving bar like when your booting up windows and under it "Copyright Microsoft 2006" but nothing about Vista. It does this for about 5 sec and then I get the Windows Error Recovery screen. It gives options for normal startup, last known good configuration startup, and safe mode startup but all of these boot for about 5 sec and then return to the error recovry page. It said to boot off a Windows startup disc and use System Recovory Options. I tried booting off the Vista DVD but all I get is the OS installation setup screen.
Does any one have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Joshua Grizzard