vista dvd boots into black screen on hp computer

Hi, everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC: Intel Pentium 4 processor 517 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore 1 DVD drive 16x 1 DVD writer 16x
Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited for 3 hours but nothing happens.
When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files, decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give up that installation.
I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the same problem.
At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
Regards,
Marc

I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x with ImgBurn. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Marc Wiselius" wrote:

Hi, everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC: Intel Pentium 4 processor 517 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore 1 DVD drive 16x 1 DVD writer 16x
Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited for 3 hours but nothing happens.
When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files, decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give up that installation.
I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the same problem.
At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
Regards,
Marc

It's not the iso image. With the iso image I managed to install Vista on a virtual machine.
Regards,
Marc
"Chris S" schreef in bericht

I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x with ImgBurn. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Marc Wiselius" wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC: Intel Pentium 4 processor 517 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore 1 DVD drive 16x 1 DVD writer 16x
Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited for 3 hours but nothing happens.
When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files, decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give up that installation.
I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the same problem.
At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
Regards,
Marc

Hi, Chris,
I followed your advise and burned the iso at 4x speed. But to no avail, the vista dvd still boots into a black screen. I also tried installing from within XP. At a certain point the pc reboots. It boots into a menu with the following options: Previous Windows Windows setup XP restore console (it might be something else)
I pressed F8 on Windows setup and selected safe mode. Then I noticed that vista halts when it reaches "disk.sys". What is this disk.sys? Is there still a way to install Vista? Thanks for all your efforts.
Regards,
Marc (aka Alagondar) "Chris S" schreef in bericht

I had a bad ISO image and I just re-downloaded it and then burned it at 4x with ImgBurn. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Marc Wiselius" wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC: Intel Pentium 4 processor 517 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore 1 DVD drive 16x 1 DVD writer 16x
Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited for 3 hours but nothing happens.
When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files, decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give up that installation.
I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the same problem.
At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
Regards,
Marc