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An Success Installing Vista Build 5536?

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 09/01/2006
From: John Schneider
Message:

I've been trying to install the latest Vista build 5536 (the August release)
in VPC, but it keeps locking up VPC completely.

I run the install and everything seems to go fine until the reboot where you
get the B&W screen "Please wait while Windows starts for the first
time......". A few minutes after that, not only does the screen go
completely blank, but I lose the VPC status bar and menu bar. At that point
the virtual machine and VPC are completely locked up. I can still click on
the red X to close the window, which crashes VPC (get the "send error to MS"
stuff). I restart VPC (even tried rebooting Windows), and the Vista vm
immediately starts up. I get the "Windows was not properly shut down"
thingy. Picking safe mode I get the error "Windows cannot complete
installation in Safe Mode. To continue installing Windows, restart the
computer". Click OK, the VM shuts down and restarts, goes into Windows and
gives the error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an
unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows,
click "OK" to restart the computer, and the restart the installation."

Has anyone had any luck with this latest Vista build?

John

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Re: An Success Installing Vista Build 5536?

Sent: 09/01/2006
From: John Schneider
Message:

Would you mind sharing the settings you used? For example, did you create a
default VM to install to? That's what I did, then upped the memory to
1024meg and set networking to NAT.

Thanks for the reply

"David Sanders" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I have it installed, but did not see the problem you are reporting.
>
> "John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > I've been trying to install the latest Vista build 5536 (the August
> > release)
> > in VPC, but it keeps locking up VPC completely.
> >
> > I run the install and everything seems to go fine until the reboot where
> > you
> > get the B&W screen "Please wait while Windows starts for the first
> > time......". A few minutes after that, not only does the screen go
> > completely blank, but I lose the VPC status bar and menu bar. At that
> > point
> > the virtual machine and VPC are completely locked up. I can still click
> > on
> > the red X to close the window, which crashes VPC (get the "send error to
> > MS"
> > stuff). I restart VPC (even tried rebooting Windows), and the Vista vm
> > immediately starts up. I get the "Windows was not properly shut down"
> > thingy. Picking safe mode I get the error "Windows cannot complete
> > installation in Safe Mode. To continue installing Windows, restart the
> > computer". Click OK, the VM shuts down and restarts, goes into Windows
> > and
> > gives the error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an
> > unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install
> > Windows,
> > click "OK" to restart the computer, and the restart the installation."
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck with this latest Vista build?
> >
> > John
> >
>
>

Re: An Success Installing Vista Build 5536?

Sent: 09/01/2006
From: "David Sanders" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I have it installed, but did not see the problem you are reporting.

"John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

> I've been trying to install the latest Vista build 5536 (the August
> release)
> in VPC, but it keeps locking up VPC completely.
>
> I run the install and everything seems to go fine until the reboot where
> you
> get the B&W screen "Please wait while Windows starts for the first
> time......". A few minutes after that, not only does the screen go
> completely blank, but I lose the VPC status bar and menu bar. At that
> point
> the virtual machine and VPC are completely locked up. I can still click
> on
> the red X to close the window, which crashes VPC (get the "send error to
> MS"
> stuff). I restart VPC (even tried rebooting Windows), and the Vista vm
> immediately starts up. I get the "Windows was not properly shut down"
> thingy. Picking safe mode I get the error "Windows cannot complete
> installation in Safe Mode. To continue installing Windows, restart the
> computer". Click OK, the VM shuts down and restarts, goes into Windows
> and
> gives the error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an
> unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install
> Windows,
> click "OK" to restart the computer, and the restart the installation."
>
> Has anyone had any luck with this latest Vista build?
>
> John
>

Re: An Success Installing Vista Build 5536?

Sent: 09/01/2006
From: "David Sanders" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I used a 32GB vhd, 512MB ram, networking set to my physical adapter. I'm
not sure what you mean by installing to a default vm (I think I selected
"other" but that shouldn't matter). I have a Pentium D cpu.

"John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

> Would you mind sharing the settings you used? For example, did you create
> a
> default VM to install to? That's what I did, then upped the memory to
> 1024meg and set networking to NAT.
>
> Thanks for the reply
>
>
> "David Sanders" wrote:
>
>> I have it installed, but did not see the problem you are reporting.
>>
>> "John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> > I've been trying to install the latest Vista build 5536 (the August
>> > release)
>> > in VPC, but it keeps locking up VPC completely.
>> >
>> > I run the install and everything seems to go fine until the reboot
>> > where
>> > you
>> > get the B&W screen "Please wait while Windows starts for the first
>> > time......". A few minutes after that, not only does the screen go
>> > completely blank, but I lose the VPC status bar and menu bar. At that
>> > point
>> > the virtual machine and VPC are completely locked up. I can still
>> > click
>> > on
>> > the red X to close the window, which crashes VPC (get the "send error
>> > to
>> > MS"
>> > stuff). I restart VPC (even tried rebooting Windows), and the Vista vm
>> > immediately starts up. I get the "Windows was not properly shut down"
>> > thingy. Picking safe mode I get the error "Windows cannot complete
>> > installation in Safe Mode. To continue installing Windows, restart the
>> > computer". Click OK, the VM shuts down and restarts, goes into Windows
>> > and
>> > gives the error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an
>> > unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install
>> > Windows,
>> > click "OK" to restart the computer, and the restart the installation."
>> >
>> > Has anyone had any luck with this latest Vista build?
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>>
>>

Re: An Success Installing Vista Build 5536?

Sent: 09/05/2006
From: John Schneider
Message:

David,

By "installing to a default vm", I meant that to create the new VM, you went
through the wizard and took all the defaults.

BTW, according to Ben Armstrong, there is a problem when you use NAT
networking with the Vista install. I changed it to use the physical adapter,
and the install went fine.

Thanks again for the replys,
John

"David Sanders" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I used a 32GB vhd, 512MB ram, networking set to my physical adapter. I'm
> not sure what you mean by installing to a default vm (I think I selected
> "other" but that shouldn't matter). I have a Pentium D cpu.
>
> "John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > Would you mind sharing the settings you used? For example, did you create
> > a
> > default VM to install to? That's what I did, then upped the memory to
> > 1024meg and set networking to NAT.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply
> >
> >
> > "David Sanders" wrote:
> >
> >> I have it installed, but did not see the problem you are reporting.
> >>
> >> "John Schneider" <(email address - cut out)am> wrote in message
> >> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >> > I've been trying to install the latest Vista build 5536 (the August
> >> > release)
> >> > in VPC, but it keeps locking up VPC completely.
> >> >
> >> > I run the install and everything seems to go fine until the reboot
> >> > where
> >> > you
> >> > get the B&W screen "Please wait while Windows starts for the first
> >> > time......". A few minutes after that, not only does the screen go
> >> > completely blank, but I lose the VPC status bar and menu bar. At that
> >> > point
> >> > the virtual machine and VPC are completely locked up. I can still
> >> > click
> >> > on
> >> > the red X to close the window, which crashes VPC (get the "send error
> >> > to
> >> > MS"
> >> > stuff). I restart VPC (even tried rebooting Windows), and the Vista vm
> >> > immediately starts up. I get the "Windows was not properly shut down"
> >> > thingy. Picking safe mode I get the error "Windows cannot complete
> >> > installation in Safe Mode. To continue installing Windows, restart the
> >> > computer". Click OK, the VM shuts down and restarts, goes into Windows
> >> > and
> >> > gives the error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an
> >> > unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install
> >> > Windows,
> >> > click "OK" to restart the computer, and the restart the installation."
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone had any luck with this latest Vista build?
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
>

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