Windows could not configure to run on this computer's hardware.

[Danjen]

I think you formatted the flash stick as fat 32 and that may interfere with an ntfs install of vista.

[EricS001]

Yea It was FAT 32, how would I format it as different type?

Edit:Nevermind I managed to change it to NTFS, will try with that now.

[Danjen]

I don't think you can just change it without putting all the programs back on as ntfs.  Changing it should require a reformat and then there will be trouble making it bootable.  I think you will have better luck with the DVDs.

[EricS001]

I used HP Format Tool to change it to NTFS, and now I'm putting the programs back on.

Then using Microsoft .iso to USB/DVD tool to make it bootable.

[Danjen]

I hope it works for you, I know you are putting in a lot of time now.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, please let us know if you now get Vista to install.

I'm rooting for you! 

[EricS001]

Finally got it to work, thank you guys so much! Had to change BIOS setting from RAID to AHCI, and it finally went through!

But now I have a D: drive, how do I get rid of that? It's the 97.7GB one.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Congratulations! I knw you could do it.

I had the same problem when my recovery disks didn't work and they had created the recovery partition (which won't work anyway).

I'm not an expert but, I think what I did was to go into the administrative tools>disk management, deleted the partition, and then extended my C:\ partition to absorb the space.

Then I did a disk defrag.

Paul