vista 5308 installation

I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

Might sound like a lame foboff excuse - however try copying all the files off the disk and onto a folder on the hard drive itself, say on the Desktop and try installing from there.
I haven't had a single Vista installation from 5112 (and a couple of more recent internal builds) that have actually worked from the disk media - I've always had to copy the files onto the harddrive first.
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I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

How did you launch Windows Vista setup, by booting off the disk or from within XP? What is the partition size, I think build 5308 requires a minimum of at 13 GBs free space. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Dan" wrote in message

I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

I launched the install by booting off of the CD. The drive is 80 gig, and I have tried with the entire drive formatted as a single NTFS partition, and also without any partition created at all.
"Andre Da Costa" wrote:

How did you launch Windows Vista setup, by booting off the disk or from within XP? What is the partition size, I think build 5308 requires a minimum of at 13 GBs free space. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Dan" wrote in message I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

As Andre has suggested in previous posts - install 5308 from within XP.
"Dan" wrote in message

I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

Have you actually tried from boot though? Sure that's available...
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As Andre has suggested in previous posts - install 5308 from within XP.
"Dan" wrote in message I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan

I am not sure, but I don't think Vista currently supports installing to RAW disk, only logical partitions. I would suggest installing XP on that 80 GB drive, then start the setup from XP and choose a clean install or boot from the disk and select the 80 GB drive and see if it installs then. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Dan" wrote in message

I launched the install by booting off of the CD. The drive is 80 gig, and I have tried with the entire drive formatted as a single NTFS partition, and also without any partition created at all.
"Andre Da Costa" wrote:
How did you launch Windows Vista setup, by booting off the disk or from within XP? What is the partition size, I think build 5308 requires a minimum of at 13 GBs free space. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Dan" wrote in message I received a copy of the 5308 (Feb CTP) Beta 2 Vista DVD at a recent TS2 event and have tried to install it on my HP D530 with a Seagate 80 Gig Eide Barracuda drive. The installation will not recognize either the partition or the formatted drive, and seems to want a driver. I have formatted the drive as NTFS in XP and also tried deleting the partition in XP and then retried the install - have gotten similar results each time that I try the Vista install.
Help!
Dan