I have a month old vista based pc with 2 disk installed. I noticed that the boot disk has a hidden recovery partition.
I would like to perform a clean install from slimmed (vlite) down version of the mesh supplied MS vista disk. trying this in VMware the disk works fine.
If I try installing a new version of vista - the installer seems to hang each time. The pc boots from the dvd loads files and then sits at the windows boot splash screen before the installer loads the first gui screen.
After some searching on the internet some people have reported similar problems:
- when they have SATA drives and the the bios not set to ATA. the Mesh bois does not have the option to select ATA mode for SATA drives.
- or when a hidden partition is present on the boot disk
any other suggests as to why the vista installer never really loads let alone completes?