Upgrading from XP to Vista. NEED HELP!

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n64314

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Hey guys. I just decided to upgrade my XP system(custom built) to Vista after filling my HDD. I just sorta wanted to start fresh and get rid of everything on my HDD. So I got my old Windows XP Pro CD and booted my computer up from it. I went in there and reformated my HDD to start clean. The reformating went smoothly and there were no error messages or anything.

I restart the computer and pop Windows Vista into the DvD drive. It loads up fine and starts gathering the necessary files but as it gets the the end it gives me an error msg saying that there was an unexpected I/O error. It said it could be the result of removing a external device or a failing HDD or CD/DVD rom drive. Then it restarts the computer and it will no longer recognize the DVD and says NTLDR is missing. Press CTR ALT DEL to restart.

Now I know its not the DVD thats bad because before I reformated I tried to reformat with the windows Vista DVD and it loaded up fine but I just couldn't reformat with it. I can still load my old windows XP CD fine WITH MY CD ROM DRIVE.

Can any one shed some light on the aggravating issue? I don't want to reinstall XP after I just deleted everything off my HDD to install vista.

Thanks in advance!
 
reformat the hard drive again with the xp disc and try again. your problem lays within the hard drive and the ide/sata
 
AlienMenace said:
Just wondering, if you have more than 2gb of ram in your computer, vista will not load.
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WHo told you this. im running 6GB of ram and vista loaded fine when i installed x64 and x32 bit.

i wanan read where is says this. they wouldnt make a OS where the user has to take ram out inorder to install.
 
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