That's where I'd seen it. I think I've mentioned this (what's been
happening to me) before but I consider this a bug/glitch and would like to
hear Darrell Gorter's /Vinny Flint or someone who helped build setup at
Redmond's reaction. It thew me for a little bit at first, but not for long.

This gets in the nexus of what happens when you use older but plenty
adequate hardware and Vista setup. Ever since Build 5472 I was prevented
from running Vista setup from the XP CD.

Beginning with Build 5472 through RTM, when I try to setup Vista on a dual
boot from XP I get stopped on an early setup screen, the one that allows you
to pick which drive you want to install to by selecting a Custom/Advanced
install (the click on the 5th screen down here):

http://www.windowsvista.windowsreins...whdd/index.htm

When I select custom/advanced as I always do, from XP (5472 and through
6000...) I get that "you cannot complete setup because your IDE controller
cannot run Vista. I would like to find the author or authors of that
screen and that error message, and I'm going to try because he/she/they in
Redmondland are dead wrong. When it first happened to me, I thought "well,
some update somehow had me spooked because I sure had no problem running
setup every build since the little baby Beta hit the delivery room back in
July 2005."

I had to reboot because of a shell crash I couldn't prevent or recover from
by restarting the shell (typing explorer.exe into the XP New Apps run box
reached through Task Man will prevent the shell crash and most IE crashes in
my experience 85% of the time). When I rebooted, I still had the Vista DVD
in, and it went of coure into setup, and I tried it again and this time it
allowed me to sail through and I have had setup times varying from 30
minutes to my record of 16 minutes ever since. 5480 was faster than RTM for
me, but I have no idea why.

Since I have to boot from the DVD and not from XP on that particular box, I
have been seeing the format option. I'd like to know why they give people a
*false message in Vista setup from XP* and tell them they can't run setup
when they absolutely can. I consider this a more serious error glitch than
the fact that the Upgrade Advisor is seriously wrong much of the time.

CH

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
news:312E9925-0023-4690-B318-5A87F26EAB2C@microsoft.com...
> Format is reached through the Advanced Options button, if that is what you
> mean. AO is only available to me when I boot with the dvd to start Setup.
> I cannot find it when I start Setup from the legacy (or other Vista)
> desktop. This is why it is rather daunting to do a classic clean install
> from an Upgrade Edition.
>
> "Chad Harris" <msftneedstogetoutvistainfo.net> wrote in message
> news:%23KzZhG%23IHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Yessir--lol I wasn't posting to contradict anything. It seemed he had
>> several options. I know there is an option in setup I forget the precise
>> location --a hyperlink on the screen to format as well isn't there?
>>
>> CH
>>
>>
>> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:831F1803-12AD-46C1-BCD4-2A8979FBD00F@microsoft.com...
>>> Or simply use VistaBoot Pro 3.1.
>>>
>>> "Chad Harris" <msftneedstogetoutvistainfo.net> wrote in message
>>> news:eT3A3Z9IHHA.3264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> 5) A little unrelated, but if you had a dual boot and wanted to change
>>>> the default boot, you can do so by typing sysdm.cpol or getting to
>>>> System Properties via the Windows + Pause Break key or the control
>>>> panel >Advanced tab>Settings button at Startup and Recovery (bottom
>>>> button)>Default Operating System (select on the pull down at the top of
>>>> the Startup and Recovery dialogue box.
>>>>
>>>> CH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>