Vista Installation Problem - disk.sys (blue screen of death)

Great suggestion. Thanks.

 

Unfortunately, it got to the point that 'Microsoft could not solve this problem automatically' and I sent information off to them  to 'help them solve the problem'

 

It was whinging that the system volume on the disk was corrupt. Can anyone get anything from  below? Any other suggestions?

 

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Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log
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Number of repair attempts: 3

Session details
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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 15 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 156 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 32 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 60715 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Volume content check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot manager diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System boot log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Event log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Internal state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot status test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Setup state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 265 ms

Root cause found:
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Failure while setup is in progress.

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Session details
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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 172 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 109 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 60840 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Volume content check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 406 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot manager diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 78 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System boot log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Event log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Internal state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 47 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot status test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Setup state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 60746 ms

Root cause found:
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Failure while setup is in progress.

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Session details
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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 172 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 94 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 4773 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Volume content check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 406 ms

Root cause found:
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System volume on disk is corrupt.

Repair action: File system repair (chkdsk)
Result: Completed successfully. Error code =  0x0
Time taken = 165844 ms

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Try this,

Put your disk in, restart, , boot from DVD rom, , do not enter your product code, select the proper disk you bought, accept the EULA, and when the screen appears asking where you want to install windows, highlight your primary partition and select delete. Vista should wipe the disk clean, quick format, then install  on the raw partition,  should install in about 20 minutes.

Good luck,

jd

Thanks for the suggestion. Will try tonight. However its an upgrade disk so not sure if your suggestion will work gdwrnch3?

 

Update since my last post. I deleted the 2nd partition (thinking it might have something to do with it - though scandisk never found any problems). In the process, this blitzed my primary partition so I reformatted the hard disk, re-installed XP (no problems), and straight away installed vista (with no 3rd party software installed) with a clean installation.

 

I went further along then ... but got win32.sys error (blue screen of death). I rebooted, but got back to the original error message in my first post.

 

Could it be a RAM issue which Vista is extra sensitive about? XP has no problems with it, memory diagnostics came back clean.

Hi,

 

Tried the above suggestion. Let Vista installation delete primary partition and reformat, etc.

 

Unfortunately, I still get the blue screen of death again around part 2 of the installation. The other thing I noticed was that the installation took much much longer than the suggested 20 minutes. It was over 2 hours before I get the error.

 

Any further suggestions??? Other than giving up on Vista? :)

 

Kind Regards,

 

Paul

 

 

thats the best I can offer, all my installs took no more than 25 minutes, with the raid 0 install on my XPS 700 about 15 minutes. Sorry I couldn't help you.

jd

I've been fighting the same problem during the past three days! I've searched some other forums, and I have concluded that a disk error is not the problem here. When I booted in safe mode during the first reboot of the upgrade, the last loaded file appears to be disk.sys... now, some guys over in the microsoft forums have suggested to update the BIOS, which I have already tried (didn't work). I think this problem is a BIOS/disk.sys driver conflict issue. Furthermore, I also run a Dimension 9150/XPS 400.

Hi Santos755,

 

I haven't been game to try it again until I've got further information. I've only just recently gone from 1GB of RAM to 2GB. I also have an external harddisk arriving soon so that I can do a 'better backup' prior to a re-attempt.

 

I'm on A07 which according to DELL is the most up to date version of BIOS.

 

Any suggestions on how to attack the BIOS/disk.sys issue? When I tried to login in via 'Safe Mode' in Vista I still got the blue screen of death email.

 

You've been my best lead yet to someone else experiencing the same problem.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Paul

Cheers .. I'll do likewise.

Hi Santos755,

 

You had any luck?

Hello.

 

Sorry, haven't found a solution yet:smileysad:

 

I still think there's a conflict between the Dell A03/A07 BIOS and the Maxtor HD. I'm planning to buy another 160GB drive, this time NOT from Maxtor. I'll then try to install, not upgrade, on the new disk. Of course I have an upgrade version of Vista, so I will only be able to use it for 30 days... but I'll figure it out.:smileywink:

 

I assume you didn't have any luck?

 

With Regards