Linked by Adam S on Wed 17th Aug 2005 15:15 UTC
Windows O'Reilly's DevCenter continues its foray into all things Vista by investigating Aero Glass, presentation broadcast tools, UAP and RDP security, and more. Here's part 1 for those of you that missed it.
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by CPUGuy on Wed 17th Aug 2005 15:58 UTC
CPUGuy
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2005-07-06

For me, when I installed Vista, the system does not boot properly (Read, it blue screens) unless I have the CD loaded.

Now, it's not booting off the CD. Basically, it has the familiar "if you want to boot to CD, press any key", I wait that out, and then it just completely skips over the boot menu and boots into Longhorn.
Without the CD in there, it displays the new Longhorn boot menu, and selecting Longhorn just brings up a blue screen. Selecting "Legacy Pre-Longhorn" loads the old XP boot menu, and XP boots just fine.

I am thinking that this is the reason why it won't install on his USB drive. A very very odd problem, but a problem none the less.