My windows installation failed, what do I do?

Question

I was "clean" installing my version of Windows Vista-64 bit and it failed almost ll the way through... I keep getting a message that says:

The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered and unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install windows, click "OK" to restart computer, and than restart the installation



Only, everytime the computer keeps restarting OVER and OVER and never restarts the installation...


What do I do????

Answer 1

You need to format the drive with a third party application. Reformatting with the Windows Install disk will not reformat the entire hard drive, it leaves some boot files that cause the restarting problem.

You can use Dban. Download it and burn it to a CD, then boot from it and do an autoformat. After it's done then try the Install disc again.

http://www.dban.org/

Answer 2

make sure your booting off the cd/dvd driver first and try to reinstall if this fails again download Ubuntu install that and make a paper weight out of the Vista disk

Answer 3

Start over. Boot up with the disk and "Press any key" when it tells you to to so SetUp begins again

Answer 4

i dont know just get windows 7, windows vista is just a collection of glitches and bugs and it really sucks so just get windows 7

Answer 5

you need to try to determine which piece of hardware is causing your issue.



My first guess would be your hard drive.

Answer 6

drop that peice of crap onto the floor and use your home owners insurance to buy a mac