I bought a dell inspiron 1440 without any operating system. What should I install first, the dell drivers or windows vista?

I use the windows vista installation disc supplied with my previous pc. I tried to do a clean install, inserted the disc into the cd/dvd drive. No installation window. The screen says "windows loading files..." After a few hours, the display shows something like

"" windows has not... error: file boot32.exe is corrupt or not found. "."

Then the Dell XP disc is great to use. However, do not install an operating system is usually caused by (in order of probability):

1. you are trying to install with other devices connected to the computer. Unplug them before trying to make an installation.

2. "" "" defective installation media. "" Check the CD/DVD installation for scratches, tasks. Try another machine.

3. bad optical drive. Test with another CD/DVD bootable or Exchange for a well-known work.

4. faulty RAM. Test with Memtest86 + www.memtest.org . You will download the .iso image file to create a bootable cd. Burn the file with the third party burning software *-as an image, not in the form of data. Then start with the media that you did (you may need to change the boot priority in your BIOS so that the optical drive is the first boot device). The test runs immediately. The test run for an hour or two--at least that errors are seen immediately. If you get any errors, replace the RAM.

* It is not necessary to have a third party burning software in Windows 7 since Win7 natively allows to burn an .iso. Other operating systems require it. A good free choice ImgBurn comes from www.imgburn.com .

5. bad hard drive. Test with a diagnostic utility downloaded from site of the disc mftr... You create a bootable CD with the files you download. Burn the file with a third-party burning software (unless you have Windows 7, that allows to record the .isos natively) - as an image, not in the form of data. Boot with the CD that you have done and do a full test of the reader. The physical tests fail, replace it.

6. other hardware components are faulty.

Then you unfortunately discovered why the phone was for sale.
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