Vista install on old crashed hard drive

Hello,
I have 2 pc's with xp, each with ide drives, One crashed, so I removed the
hard drive to run as a slave on my other pc to see if I could retrieve the
data. When I did this, the ribbon pulled loose just enough to shut down my
drive (yes on the good one). I now have to reboot with original boot disk,
which I no longer have. So I go and buy Vista Home Premium, then first am
able remove the data (via knoppix) from the old crashed drive (first one).
So I put this drive into the 2nd pc as master, and attempt to install Vista.
I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar screens,
and the screen goes to a black screed with nothing but a mouse arrow on it.
Please help me figure out how to install Vista onto this Old IDE 120 gig
hard drive. The pc meets the minimum requirements on the Vista box.
Thank you!

 

Very confused post!

Have you changed the "slave" setting on the old hard drive to "master"?

"you now have to reboot with original boot disk, which you no longer
have"???????
Doesn't make sense!!!!

 

Yes I set it to master, btw which is what I said!!!!

I was asked to put in the original boot disk, but guess what, I don't have
it! Does that make since Mick????

I'll take it in for repair, cause that would be better than listening to
your sarcastic punctuation! Smart A_s!

Thanks for nothing!

 

Using the PC which you believe to be Vista capable, install one of the
drives into it ensduring that the jumper is set to 'SINGLE'. Now install
Vista onto the drive..

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I was trying to be helpful ars*wipe!

Now, you can forget it!

 

Thanks for trying Mick, but I already forgot about it! Nice effort though.

 

Thanks Mike. Master and single are the same setting on this drive. I am
installing it as the only hard drive too. In the bios, it recognizes it as
the master. Is there anything else you need? As I mentioned earlier, I was
able to retrieve all of my important docs by using knoppix, so I can wipe it
if I need to, I'm just not sure how to or if that is the right thing to do.

 

Set the BIOS such that the DVD drive is first in the list. Then reboot the
machine with the Vista DVD in place. Follow the onscreen instructions, and
it should be all done in maybe 30 minutes..

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You may be having a problem with the video driver. What video card do you
have? Have you tried booting into safe mode on the final reboot?

 

Thanks John! That was it. I changed video cards, and it worked. I
appreciate your help!