Vista Home Premium installation failure

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Anonyman

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Hey all.. I have a large problem concerning a clean install of Vista Home Premium. Let me start off with this:

I was running Vista Home Premium a couple of days ago when, out of anger, I bashed my laptop with my fist repeatedly for unexpectedly going into this hibernation-like state while I was playing a game(it did this a couple of times before but I had had enough of it at that point). I ended up creating a couple of bad sectors on my hard drive and Vista had corrupt system drivers that couldn't be repaired through the installation DVD. Yes, installation DVD, I don't know where the recovery disk is. After a day of nearly smashing the laptop in with a hammer, I managed to wipe the whole hard disk.

Now here's my problem. When I go to install Vista Home Premium on a clean 250GB hard drive, the installation gives an error that says "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of the installation. To install Windows, please restart the installation." Could someone help?

EDIT: The system specs in my profile are of my desktop. My laptop is the main issue. The basic specs of my laptop are Core 2 Duo @ 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 730
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66 GHz
    Memory
    2x1 GB DDR3 (Sorry, I don't know the manufacturer)
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer AL1916
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
Anonyman said:
Hey all.. I have a large problem concerning a clean install of Vista Home Premium. Let me start off with this:

I was running Vista Home Premium a couple of days ago when, out of anger, I bashed my laptop with my fist repeatedly for unexpectedly going into this hibernation-like state while I was playing a game(it did this a couple of times before but I had had enough of it at that point). I ended up creating a couple of bad sectors on my hard drive and Vista had corrupt system drivers that couldn't be repaired through the installation DVD. Yes, installation DVD, I don't know where the recovery disk is. After a day of nearly smashing the laptop in with a hammer, I managed to wipe the whole hard disk.

Now here's my problem. When I go to install Vista Home Premium on a clean 250GB hard drive, the installation gives an error that says "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of the installation. To install Windows, please restart the installation." Could someone help?

EDIT: The system specs in my profile are of my desktop. My laptop is the main issue. The basic specs of my laptop are Core 2 Duo @ 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics.
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Hi anonyman, I got some pretty bad news for you, firstly, anger and PC's don't mix and you've inadvertently destroyed your own hard drive because of it, secondly, the original problem could have been fixed if you changed the power save options to high performance. The only way to fix your current issue is to replace the hard drive and take anger management classes


(the last bit was sarcasm) :D

MrNeeds
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
    Motherboard
    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
    Memory
    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA, Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA, WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
    PSU
    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
    Case
    Antec 900 Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
    Mouse
    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
    Keyboard
    Logitech generic keyboard
    Internet Speed
    16Mb Sky bb
    Other Info
    Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
Oh, it was running on High Performance. Full battery too. I remember looking at my battery about a minute and a half before I killed it.. Anyways, thanks for confirming that, I was afraid I'd killed the drive. (I take sarcasm very well, I just think that things are.. mocking me. It's hard to explain.) Again, thanks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 730
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66 GHz
    Memory
    2x1 GB DDR3 (Sorry, I don't know the manufacturer)
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer AL1916
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
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