Cant install windows vista.?

Question

Cant install windows vista.?

Answer 1

You can not do that as a rule; the laptop will surely no longer appreciate that the 2 ISO records are without a doubt all a part of the identical OS and will have to go in sequence. If it had been that simple, Microsoft would have already got completed that for you. I'd simply buy a brand new Apple keyboard and that method you will have a working Eject button for while you want it at different instances at some point, too. But the typical command for Eject is Command-E, I have no idea if the home windows installer will admire that, you could also try Ctrl-E if the command button doesn't work.

Answer 2

Sounds to me like the Hard drive in the computer is either unformatted, RAW, isn't connected to the cables correctly or is dead.

When you turn the computer on it does a POST test....Power On Self Test..... before it passes over to the BIOS to go into the Boot stage.

On the screen which is black there is white wording comes up. It will read "Detecting Hard drives" and if it finds any they will be listed as Disk 0, Master or Disk 1 Master or Slave or such like. Is there a hard disk detected?

That is the first thing you need to tell us.

You could have to go into the BIOS (Setup) and set the hard drive to boot after the CD\DVD drive,

The CMOS battery in the computer could be flat, therefore the BIOS doesn't hold its settings.

So, lets have the info on whether or not a Hard drive is Detected as a Master drive during that POST screen



edit: just for the record and if you need drivers for the laptop, they are here on this page, you will have to sort through the links to find the ones you are being told that you need:



http://home.allgameshome.com/results.php?category=web&s=packard+bell+mz36



........But I think the problem is that which I said, No hard drive detected??? Is there a hard drive in the laptop??

Answer 3

Are you sure that you're using a Windows install disc?



If yes, do you know if there is actually an hard drive in the laptop? it sounds to me like the hard drive may have been removed.



EDIT.



There may be a recovery partition in there, (to restore to as it was when new) presuming the hard drive is intact, so try this. Remove the Windows disc first and you may have to click on repair my computer to bring up the recovery options.



1 Turn on your computer. Press the "F11" function key located at the top of the keyboard. This will allow you to navigate through the system restore options that include "Partial Recovery" and "Complete Recovery."



2

Click the "Complete Recovery" option to complete the process of restoring your Packard Bell to its original factory condition. This step should take 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Upon completion, end the system restore process by clicking on the "Finish" button.



3

Restart your Packard Bell computer to launch the operating system that is now restored to its original factory settings.

Answer 4

Why do you want vista? It's slow and badly made. Just get win 7 it's much better than vista

Answer 5

The Vista install disks should contain all the drivers that are needed to install Windows on to a normal internal computer hard disk. It sounds that, for some reason, the installer is not recognising your hard disk. Possible reasons for this include:



The disk drive has been removed or disconnected.

The disk drive is faulty.

The disk drive has no recognisable partition table on it.

The BIOS has a configuration setting has the wrong configuration settings for the disk.

The BIOS has been set to disable the interface to the disk.



If the disk is missing, disconnected or faulty, then it is a case of opening up the computer and fixing the problem.



If the problem is a BIOS setting, then in one of the very early screens, just after you switch the computer on, there should be an option to go into setup. Go through the BIOS settings and see if any are obviously wrong. Provided the disk channel is not disabled, there is normally an option to auto-detect the disk and configure the BIOS settings. If this fails to find the disk, then the drive might be missing, disconnected or faulty.



If there is no recognisable partition table, then you will have to find a tool that will set up a partition table (even an empty one) after which the installer should work. Personally I use Ubuntu release 10.04 LTS. This is available at



http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/



This can be burned on to a 700 MB CD and the system can be booted and run from the CD without installing it. Once Ubuntu is running from the CD, open the terminal program (from applications). In the terminal program run the commands:



sudo su



fdisk /dev/sda

if this does not find a device, try /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, etc.



If fdisk opens the disk, type 'p' and hit return. Hopefully this will report that there is no partition table. Type 'w' and hit return to write an empty partition table on the disk.



After this, try the install of Vista again.