Vista Home Pre Install new drive no OS error

>
> Installing (trying) Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit OEM full ver.) on
> a new single drive installed in an existing working system. Insert disk
> and cold boot up. I see the DVD drive working and on screen I'm seeing
> the windows installation files installing. After that I get the enter
> key (which I do) and then we go to a screen that shows type of install
> (only custom clean install with no OS is option). That is ok since this
> is not an upgrade or install with existing OS. Drive is new with no OS.
> Then next scrren shows drive options and the current (only hard drive)
> is shown as primary one partition. So far so good. Upgrade is not
> selectable which is good since that is not what the OEM is nor what I'
> doing. The next scrren shows at least a start of the install (gathering
> information I think it says). First check mark ok and then the install
> stops on the second item with the follow error:
> D:\sources\install.wim error code 0x800701e7
> I can't go beyond that point. If I try again (ten times so far) at the
> select drive I search the OEM DVD disk and find the d:\sources folder
> but nothing like a install.wim file. I've looks in all the folders (on
> the install disk) but nothing along that line of what it's looking for.
> It could be compressed or zip but I wouldn't know.
> My level of expertise is on the low side as this is my first vista
> install and the first time installing an OEM from scrach. Any words of
> advice?
> P.S. This CPU that I'm working on now is my current XP system. I'm just
> quickly swapping around the internal SATA plugs with the new blank drive
> so anything I try I have to power down and re-swap. I'm sorry I'm not
> that sharp at this but trying to learn. thanks
>
>
> --
> John Carpenter

>I don't have the OEM version but I do have the file on my Retail version
>
> "John Carpenter" <John.Carpenter.2xsgi0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:John.Carpenter.2xsgi0@no-mx.forums.net...

>>
>> Installing (trying) Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit OEM full ver.) on
>> a new single drive installed in an existing working system. Insert disk
>> and cold boot up. I see the DVD drive working and on screen I'm seeing
>> the windows installation files installing. After that I get the enter
>> key (which I do) and then we go to a screen that shows type of install
>> (only custom clean install with no OS is option). That is ok since this
>> is not an upgrade or install with existing OS. Drive is new with no OS.
>> Then next scrren shows drive options and the current (only hard drive)
>> is shown as primary one partition. So far so good. Upgrade is not
>> selectable which is good since that is not what the OEM is nor what I'
>> doing. The next scrren shows at least a start of the install (gathering
>> information I think it says). First check mark ok and then the install
>> stops on the second item with the follow error:
>> D:\sources\install.wim error code 0x800701e7
>> I can't go beyond that point. If I try again (ten times so far) at the
>> select drive I search the OEM DVD disk and find the d:\sources folder
>> but nothing like a install.wim file. I've looks in all the folders (on
>> the install disk) but nothing along that line of what it's looking for.
>> It could be compressed or zip but I wouldn't know.
>> My level of expertise is on the low side as this is my first vista
>> install and the first time installing an OEM from scrach. Any words of
>> advice?
>> P.S. This CPU that I'm working on now is my current XP system. I'm just
>> quickly swapping around the internal SATA plugs with the new blank drive
>> so anything I try I have to power down and re-swap. I'm sorry I'm not
>> that sharp at this but trying to learn. thanks
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Carpenter

>

>
> John,
> I hadn't done anything on the MOBO chipset since I didn't think I would
> need to update that since the original factory installed hard drive on
> my system was a factory installed SATA drive running XP MediaCenter.
> Since that was a SATA drive I would think the chipset has drivers for
> the drive already loaded. In fact I had prepped (checked) the new drive
> by loading or original OS (XP Media Center) from scratch and that worked
> fine. I've since formated the drive (NTFS) to get it ready for a clean
> scratch Vista install. So it should be ready. The disk I have is a new
> OEM (32bit) Vista Prem full version but as I mentioned, I've never
> installed or had any experience using OEM disks.
>
>
> --
> John Carpenter
>
> Dogface