OK, I give, wth won't this install, it gets to uncompressing files, then does nothing other than thrash the HD for eons without end.

Doc you got a bum disk? Was it the OEM disk? I can burn you off a copy from the technet site. I'll look to see if I still have the image now.

Damn must have deleted the file. I'll take a look at pulling it down again.

Ahh I found my Vista Ultimate OEM RTM disk. But I am also downloading Vista with SP1 built in. That should be down in the next hour and half.

Got it, it either didn't like the fact I had multiple optical drives, or that I was trying to install on a logical partition.

Picky Vista.

Yep, god forbid I'd might have the floppy enabled in BIOS, but didn't have one attached... "Oh, look at me, I'm the uber OS, I'm gonna go find your floppy drive, I won't stop looking until I find it"

HOLY SHIT! NO!

XP Pro 64 is roughly equivalent to Windows ME. Nothing works right!

XP pro x64 came to late and will never be finished. its almost like the just said f**K it half way through.

I tried Xp Pro x64, what a pile of crap, nothing worked.

Yeah par for the course for a Windoze OS.

im runnin gvista ult x64 and i must say i havent had as many problems as i did with xp 64 bit a year or 2 ago.
only problems i had was a few gams i cant install for some reason. fahrenheit pisses me off the most.
and some video card issues. that i resolved in a nite or 2. i like how ya dont have to have all x64 apps ya can still run x86 apps in vista x64