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I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before I tried to install and there were no major issues highlighted. I seem to have successfully installed Vista (I think), but when the PC boots everything seems OK until it gets to the coloured 'Please Wait...' screen where it hangs and goes no further. I have tried all of the tools on the instillation DVD - Repair, etc... Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

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"leebob" wrote:

I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before I tried to install and there were no major issues highlighted. I seem to have successfully installed Vista (I think), but when the PC boots everything seems OK until it gets to the coloured 'Please Wait...' screen where it hangs and goes no further. I have tried all of the tools on the instillation DVD - Repair, etc... Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

I would just download it from the microsoft web site
it is working fine on windows xp home
from chris
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

I am not sure if this is a device issue, but here's some guidance if you want to report a bug:
Finding setup logs, reporting and attaching logs to report, figuring out what device or driver causes hangs or crash during setup:
1. google -> beta client click the first link. It needs .NET but I think it will be installed if you try to run it without it..
2. finding and identifying the correct logs
setupapi.app.log setupapi.dev.log <<-- last 20 lines here may indicate hanging driver
These are the primary setup logs, there are others but these are the major.
Hint: Before searching logs try Folder Options and enable viewing of hidden folders and files. Also try Run diskmgmt.msc -> assign drive letters for partitions with no drive letters.
A:
There can be multiple logs with the same name, but they are different! First look at the drive you tried to install Vista to, if it has Vista Windows\INF\ directory and the mentioned logs files.
B: early setup failure
If you can't find Windows VISTA directory (if setup did not get so far) then look all volumes/partitions in the drives that were on the machine during the install for directories starting with $. There are 2-4 of them (possibly in different partitions) depending on when the setup failed. Search for .log under all the *:\$WINDOWS.. and again look at the date/minute timestamp to see which of the logs was changed just before the failure occured.
Also ee that the date and Minute timestamp of the log files are around the time when the setup failed, sometimes a setup/install failure causes the computer to automatically reboot and the setup will run again but failing in different way than the first time (making the bug report less useful). For best bug report it's better to catch the failure when it first happens. Yes it means starting the install all over again and keeping eye on it. But this will guarantee that the last line in the log will be around the time of the failure. If it is a driver crash then you can figure out the offending driver yourself just by looking at the last twenty or so lines of setupapi.dev.log.
"leebob" wrote in message

I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before I tried to install and there were no major issues highlighted. I seem to have successfully installed Vista (I think), but when the PC boots everything seems OK until it gets to the coloured 'Please Wait...' screen where it hangs and goes no further. I have tried all of the tools on the instillation DVD - Repair, etc... Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?