So my friends buddy is a VP w/ western digital. He got me a free vista premium and ive tryed to install it the last few days and im having a issue.
Disk goes in, i boot from it, select my hard drive, format it, and proceed through step 1 and then go to step 2. I get to step 2 and it gets to the point that i need to restart. it restarts and goes to a blue screen which changes so fast that i cant even read it, and tells me there was an error, so the next time i start i get the opertating system selection screen (Choose how u want to start windows, safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, etc.) and i chose regular the first time, that didnt work, reinstalled, chose safe mode the next one, said u cant finish installation like this.

HELP ME

so now i cant even get past the second boot, the system holds up at press any key to boot from disk, and it even did it when i tryed to install xp

He got you a pirated verison? I wouldn't even bother then, why don't you go buy a real version.

no, its the full install. Western Digital gave him apparently a copy for each of his PCs and he didnt want one for his laptop... i dont know, its pretty cool, he got the xbox like over a year before it came out, and this time i got a little taste

ive tryed a few things on my own now, ive disconected the TV tuner hoping it was a driver issue, and disconected my printer for the same reason. the start up recovery says that if i recently connected a portable media device that i should disconect it and restart. obviously i havent, so then it also says that if the problem persists to contact the computer manufacture.... me. any suggestions?

found this and im going to try it.
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