I ahve a Latitude e6500 laptop from 2009, warranty expired 2012 May. It came with XP installed and was used that way util a recent HDD crash. I have replaced the HDD, and since I had the original XP ( Pro SP3) and Vista (Business 32bit SP1) install disks I tried to install Vista (clean) on the new HDD. It failed with an error messge that it could not install Vista on this computer (paraphrasing). So I installed XP and that went OK. Then I tried to install Vista again after booting into XP and it went throught he whole process until the last of 5 steps, "Completing installation..." whej it failed a second time. The exact message was:

"Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware"

Any suggestions? I assume the hardware should be compatible with Vista since the installation disk was provided with the original system.

 

Thanks,

-Jeff