Just tried to install AVG (Free) on the Feb CTP of Vista and it died on me. AVG itself complained that the HDD was locked or something and couldnt access it, and then it BSOD'd. Yes the bright blue, and ever so fun Blue Screen Of DEATH! Then it simply just would not boot into the GUI of Vista -didnt make it to the login screen. Just a plain black screen with the build info on the bottom right.

In order to fix this I booted into safe mode logged in as administrator and then uninstalled AVG. Oh I ran a few chkdisks on the way as well. It appears that for some reason my partition gets corrupted quite allot. Its a fairly new HDD, and a brand spanken new partition, with a new format so I cant see it being the HDD. Ive been running XP on the same HDD since Christmas without a single issue.

I noticed as well, when I used the boot disk to go into repair mode with the OS you can actually move the "Automatic Repair Wizard" to the side and access the previous menu items, such as the command prompt. I noticed that I could actuall launch stuff like notepad and tasklist. I tried to do a screen cap and dump it into mspaint but mspaint failed to load because of some obscure dll issue.

I did grab a copy of the Wizard results with it though...

Session Summary:
System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
WinDir = D:\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk meta data test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 141 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 234 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot manager log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Determine target OS
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Quick volume metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 204 ms

Root cause found:
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System volume on disk is corrupt.

Repair action: ChkDsk
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 577812 ms

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10 Comments

• Andrew Burt said Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:07:00 AM

  I just tried installing Trend AV and it reported a 'unsuported platform' but fortunately not BSOD

• fizz said Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:11:00 AM

  I managed to get AVG installed, but the resident shield doesn't enable, and it doesn't give the option to enable..any ideas?

• dumbass who thinks vista is xp said Saturday, March 4, 2006 7:21:00 PM

  umb, praps because vista isn't xp?...

• david said Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:26:00 AM

  The only AV prog that works with vista is AVAST

• Tom said Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:28:00 AM

  avant! 4 works fine for me

• H N said Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:17:00 AM

  Same thing happened to me! Managed to install AVG but it doesn't get enabled, and you can enable it manually...

• Ivo said Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:18:48 AM

  There was bug at Vista, what disabed AVG work. Yesterday Microsoft fixed this bug, so AVG should works OK.

• Sankar said Monday, September 11, 2006 2:37:17 AM

  I tried three different AV programs with Vista Build 5308. 1. TrendMicro (14.56) gives the error "Unsupported Platform" 2. Symantec did not load 2. CA's EZAntivirus has messed up my system causing it to freeze.

• caqo said Friday, September 29, 2006 4:13:47 AM

  I installed AVG on Windows vista RC1 Build 5600, and it didn't work BSOD appeared when installation of AVG tried to activate the AVG antivirus service. Too bad.

• Jonny said Friday, August 17, 2007 2:23:39 PM

  I had the same display for a pretty new Dell XPS M1210. Biggest symptom is that the touchpad or even a USB mouse would not work in Vista (RTM). But when I went to the System Recovery screen in Vista...the mouse MYSTERIOUSLY worked just fine. Wierd. My prob had nothing to do with AVG. I like it.