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06-13-2011, 11:02 PM #16
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Are you using the Dell installation disk or Microsoft? 32 bit or 34 bit? I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 that had problems using the Microsoft installation disk. Also, I could never get 64 bit version of Vista to ever work.
p.s. What version of Vista are you trying to install?
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06-14-2011, 01:00 AM #17
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I'm using my OEM copy of Vista that was provided to me from my school. It's all legit and the CD key on the laptop works w/o issue.
So, you think this is all due to my disk of Vista?
And I'm attempting to install Vista Home Basic.
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06-16-2011, 09:32 AM #18
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I FIXED IT!!!
It was a stupid BIOS setting regarding the boot order. The BIOS seems to only allow devices with a number, 1 - 4, be a bootable device. So even though you have manually set the boot order the way you want it, that particular device will not be bootable unless you tell the BIOS to give it a number.
Basically I had arranged the device sequence to make the HDD the first bootable device but since I had not given the HDD a number, the POST sequence was totally skipping the HDD and gathering the required files from the Vista install disk to continue the boot process instead of doing that directly from the HDD.
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06-16-2011, 04:01 PM #19
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cool. glad you found it, and i hope i remember that in case I ever run into it.
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06-16-2011, 09:36 PM #20
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gj on fixing it had to of been one of those doh moments tho like forgetting to plug in the power cord
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06-17-2011, 04:37 PM #21
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Not really. I didn't realize that Dell had two requirements for making devices bootable. All other BIOSes I've seen only had one requirement. Originally Posted by James86
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06-17-2011, 04:46 PM #22
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I've seen a few that make you set the HHD order as well as the boot order, but not the same as what you described
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