frozen boot screen

Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

English is very good actually :o) Try a different method of installation - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted - option 4
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "ShadowF" wrote in message

Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

I've tested all the methods but it didn't work.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

English is very good actually :o) Try a different method of installation - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted - option 4
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "ShadowF" wrote in message Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:

Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500 1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner
Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't believe). But the problem seems to be physics.
"Jemimah" wrote:

I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500 1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner
Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't believe). But the problem seems to be physics.
"Jemimah" wrote:

I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500 1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner
Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't believe). But the problem seems to be physics.
"Jemimah" wrote:

I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

After being redirected by ShadowF i looked on the net for answers about the disk.sys. First I am not sure if that's the problem or that it is the *.sys file loaded after disk.sys. but it doesn't matter. I have succeeded in installing Vista: This is how: I disconnected my second HD and my DVD-burner. So now I only had a DVD-player and a HD. (both as master on the primairy and secondary IDE) Now setup loaded normally. after installing Windows Vista I connected the second hard drive again. I't was recognised after start-up and Vista loaded fine. I haven't connected the DVD-burner again (and don't have time right now). I also read a story wich was simular where not the harddrives but the Dual CPU was the problem, removing one CPU helped that person. His symptons where simular.
"ShadowF" wrote:

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500 1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner
Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't believe). But the problem seems to be physics.
"Jemimah" wrote:
I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

So, i have exactly the same problem !
I installed Windows Vista 32bit version on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ with 512 MB RAM and an 60GB USB 2.0 Harddisk, because i dont want to damage my 180 and 120 GB HardDrives... so i unplugged the two IDE Harddrives and Started to install Windows Vista to the USB HD, it worked very fine ... after an hour the windows setup wanted to reboot... after this reboot it sounds like the same problem as was written in this thread ! BUT my computer dont FREEZE instead i can see for less than a second a bluescreen then my compute restart automatically... Then i started the USB HD with Vm-Ware there i captured a screenshot of the Error Bluescreen !
http://www.raydag.de/windowsforum/windowsvista.jpg


"Richard" wrote:

After being redirected by ShadowF i looked on the net for answers about the disk.sys. First I am not sure if that's the problem or that it is the *.sys file loaded after disk.sys. but it doesn't matter. I have succeeded in installing Vista: This is how: I disconnected my second HD and my DVD-burner. So now I only had a DVD-player and a HD. (both as master on the primairy and secondary IDE) Now setup loaded normally. after installing Windows Vista I connected the second hard drive again. I't was recognised after start-up and Vista loaded fine. I haven't connected the DVD-burner again (and don't have time right now). I also read a story wich was simular where not the harddrives but the Dual CPU was the problem, removing one CPU helped that person. His symptons where simular.
"ShadowF" wrote:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500 1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner
Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't believe). But the problem seems to be physics.
"Jemimah" wrote:
I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys. My specs are: P4 530j 3ghz 512 ram Geforce fx5500 Gigabyte Mobo 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives. Samsung DVD Burner
Thanks in advance
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

I solved my problem of the frozen boot screen : I've reinitialized my BIOS parameters and it has worked. I'm writing this message in Windows Vista : At the begining, Windows is very slow but now it's faster (it's not perfect but with all effects with 512MB RAM it's good)
"ShadowF" wrote:

Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

What did exactly did you change in your bios in order to get it to boot? I have no idea why it shows the scrolling bar thing but not the logo. Also what is the driver after disk.sys?
"ShadowF" wrote:

I solved my problem of the frozen boot screen : I've reinitialized my BIOS parameters and it has worked. I'm writing this message in Windows Vista : At the begining, Windows is very slow but now it's faster (it's not perfect but with all effects with 512MB RAM it's good)
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

In the bios, I've reseted all the parameters so I don't know what element(s) caused the problem. Disk.sys is the last driver, there isn't other driver after.
"Jemimah" wrote:

What did exactly did you change in your bios in order to get it to boot? I have no idea why it shows the scrolling bar thing but not the logo. Also what is the driver after disk.sys?
"ShadowF" wrote:
I solved my problem of the frozen boot screen : I've reinitialized my BIOS parameters and it has worked. I'm writing this message in Windows Vista : At the begining, Windows is very slow but now it's faster (it's not perfect but with all effects with 512MB RAM it's good)
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

Thanks a boat load Shadow finnally got it working. Now all i need is my TV Tuner.
"ShadowF" wrote:

In the bios, I've reseted all the parameters so I don't know what element(s) caused the problem. Disk.sys is the last driver, there isn't other driver after.
"Jemimah" wrote:
What did exactly did you change in your bios in order to get it to boot? I have no idea why it shows the scrolling bar thing but not the logo. Also what is the driver after disk.sys?
"ShadowF" wrote:
I solved my problem of the frozen boot screen : I've reinitialized my BIOS parameters and it has worked. I'm writing this message in Windows Vista : At the begining, Windows is very slow but now it's faster (it's not perfect but with all effects with 512MB RAM it's good)
"ShadowF" wrote:
Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)
I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation : 1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition 2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition 3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart 4. The Windows Boot Manager appears 5. I choose "Setup" 6. A boot screen without windows logo appears 7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the screen is frozen and I've to restart.
* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line : " Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "
* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot screen appears and there is the same problem.
* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.
My computer : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ RAM : 512 Mb VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb
I whish you helped me. Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.