CD/DVD drive does not appear in Windows Vista, or you receive the following error message during Windows Vista setup after booting from the DVD:

A required CD/DVD driver device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.

You install Windows Vista on a computer that has been configured to use Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) video. However, after you do this, Windows Vista Setup does not continue when the computer is restarted for the first time.

Consider the following scenario. You have a Windows Vista-based computer. An image that the manufacturer created was used to install Windows Vista. The manufacturer used the System Preparation (Sysprep) tool to create this image. The computer’s hard disk drive is partitioned into two or more partitions. The partition on which Windows Vista is installed is larger than 40 gigabytes (GB). Additionally, the size of the partition is a multiple of 4 GB. You run Windows Vista Setup. You delete the existing partition on which Windows Vista is installed. You try to create a new partition. In this scenario, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation. Error code: 0xE0000100

When you perform an unattended installation of Windows Vista, you may find that the “[servicing]” section of the automatically detected unattended-answer file (Autounattend.xml) is not processed.

The “[servicing]” section contains instructions to install language packs, hotfixes, or other packages. The unattended-answer file is automatically detected by Windows Setup because this file is located in one of several valid search locations for unattended-answer files. Because of this problem, the installation of language packs, hotfixes, or other packages fails silently.

This problem does not occur if the Autounattend.xml answer file is explicitly specified by using the /unattend switch.

Consider the following scenario:

• You use the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component to install Windows Vista on a computer.
• The version of Windows Vista that you want to install does not include the Media Center component.
• In an unattended XML file, you specify use of the ShowMediaCenter child element to hide the Media Center component in the WindowsFeatures element.

In this scenario, the installation of Windows Vista fails. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [oobesystem]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft - Windows - Shell -Setup]

After you run the Windows Media Center First Run Setup process, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

Tuner Not Found

This issue occurs even though driver for the TV tuner was successfully installed. This issue also occurs even though Device Manager indicates that the device is working correctly.

When you try to install Windows Vista, the Windows Vista Setup program does not validate genuine product keys as expected. Additionally, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

Setup cannot validate your product key. Please review product key and ensure that it has been entered correctly.

This problem occurs when you use a third-party program to extract an ISO image of Windows Vista onto a local hard disk drive.

Notes

• The WinRAR data compression utility is an example of a third-party program that experiences this problem.
• This problem does not occur when you perform either of the following actions:
  • You burn an ISO image of Windows Vista onto a DVD.
  • You use a third-party program to mount an ISO image of Windows Vista on a virtual DVD drive.

When you try to install a 16-bit program in Windows Vista from a mapped network drive, you may receive an error message that prompts you to insert the setup disk into the drive.

When you try to install the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, you receive the following error message:

Windows Setup cannot locate a valid hard drive to store temporary installation files.

Setup does not continue past 0 percent when it tries to copy installation files.

You perform an unattended setup of an Arabic or Hebrew version of Windows Vista by using an Unattend.xml file. In the Unattend.xml file, you use the RunSynchronous or RunAsynchronous command together with the option to display the command description during the auditUser pass. In this case, the graphical user interface (GUI) window that displays the description for each command is blank. When the same Unattend.xml file is used together with the English version of Windows Vista during the auditUser pass, the descriptions are displayed correctly.