• This is a repost of another question I asked earlier as the responses seem to have misunderstood what I am asking.

    I am installing MS Vista Ultimate on a newish machine with no indicated compatibility problems, fresh install on a new additional disk. The existing disk has Windows XP Business. Towards the end of the installation, it fails with a crash when trying to boot vista and load the drivers. It's easy enough to produce the output which shows the drivers being loaded but this only tells me the previous driver which was loaded before the crash and not the actual crash causing the problem. How do I determine the actual driver which is causing the crash?

    1. My question is how to determine the driver, so how can I know until I determine the driver, whether it is for vista or not although since the installation hasn't yet finished my assumption is that all the drivers are the ones on the Vista installation disk

    2. This is a fresh installation on a brand new freshly formatted additional disk. Problem does not go away, irrespective of boot type attempted (even safe mode)

    3. I am unable to get Vista to boot, therefore cannot use control panel etc to remove possibly offending programs or any of the features of Vista to determine the root cause.

    4. System has an Athlon 4GHz 64bit but it is the 32 bit Vista I'm installing.

    5. I am aiming for a dual boot system with XP Business on the existing C drive and Vista Ultimate on the D drive (500Gb, clean, separate disk, formatted, not a virtual disk).

    I need to know which VISTA driver in the drivers directory on the VISTA partition is causing the crash thanks.


  • There can be several things to try. Unplug the XP drive prior to install, Also,XP always partitions the HDD with C as OS location and D as backup. Therefore, it may be a drive letter conflict? just try unplugging the XP HDD and see what happens. Also you, could have both OS's on the same HDD as I do so I know that works but I'm thinking there is just a simple drive path conflict. Try and see!!!







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