installation fail

I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?

I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?

I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?

You can't install a x64 OS onto a computer which has a x86 OS on already. Burn to disk then install from boot to get this working :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "firemaple" wrote in message

I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?

do believe that is what he says he is doing, installing from a booted dvd to a blank hard drive.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message You can't install a x64 OS onto a computer which has a x86 OS on already. Burn to disk then install from boot to get this working :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "firemaple" wrote in message

I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?

as mikeyhsd pointed out, that is exactly what I am doing.
anybody else have a suggestion? It gets to the same point each and every time. I've seen elsewhere to press F8 and go to safe mode but I don't think its gotten far enough for that because when I try that I only get one option: Vista install. Kicks me back to the same place.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

You can't install a x64 OS onto a computer which has a x86 OS on already. Burn to disk then install from boot to get this working :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "firemaple" wrote in message I finally was able to get the ISO downloaded and burned but I'm having a few issues. Currently I am running 32bit XP on a AMD 64 CPU. So I downloaded the 64 bit Vista release. I have an extra blank hard drive in my PC which I would like to install onto, it is NTFS formatted but blank.
When I boot from the install DVD it gets almost exactly halfway through the status bar before throwing "Windows Boot Error - Windows Boot Manager has experienced an problem - Status:0xc00000e9 - Info:An unexpected error occurred". I can't get ANYWHERE further than this screen and my only options are Enter to retry (which fails every time in the same place) and Esc so I can reboot.
Any ideas?