Windows Install, ain't installin'

[fugitive]

Never in my llife have I seen a problem with INstaller, but it's happening. In fact, this OS keeps coming up with new bummers, that I haven't had befor. It hard crashed after a few weeks of operation, and a mini hard stroke this week, forget the old blu screen of death, this one has it's one, just discised a little. I've heard one can convert back to XP, but having skipped that one, I don't know how it is. Please put on thinking caps for me as I'm stumped and every thing puiter related is getting more difficult as time goes on.

 

[rive0108]

What exactly is the problem?

Windows will not install if for example you have SATA drives-unless you load the drivers for it to see your hard drive...

 

[fugitive]

For months, I had no problem installing anything, but now it refuses, siting something about the windows installer not working, according to some other advise, I tried to uninstall it, it has a problem doing that too. This seems like a new Vista problem as Win 98 never had any trouble. Thanks.
greg

 

[rive0108]

For months, I had no problem installing anything, but now it refuses, siting something about the windows installer not working, according to some other advise, I tried to uninstall it, it has a problem doing that too. This seems like a new Vista problem as Win 98 never had any trouble. Thanks.
greg

Windows 98SE??? I ran that 7 years ago, what a mess.

Anyhow, You may have corruption (usually due to User eror/Reg Cleaners/malware)
Run sfc/scannow, and check your hard drive for errors. You can also try restoring to a point before the corruption occured (If a restore point for it still exists), otherwise you may need to repair/re-install.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/165576-how-make-vista-more-responsive-faster.html?filter
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/194765-system-recovery-options.html

 

[rive0108]

You need to get a good antivirus. What are you using now BTW?

scan/clean your system here (if using IE7)
http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

 

[JamesCharles]

Hi,
Can you post the error messages or Event Viewer Application log messages?

Regards,

Jim

 

[rive0108]

Hi,
Can you post the error messages or Event Viewer Application log messages?

Regards,

Jim

Thats a good idea.

go to Windows/Minidump

zip that file and attch to your post, Ill look at it.