hello, thanks for the article - it actually describes exactly what is happening!
The problem is, the computer was bought at the showroom, with the motherboard and RAM fully compatible (along with everything else) - there have been no upgrades, etc.
I tried doing the obvious and did a search for Diskpart.exe on the cd, but it wasnt there (stupid, i know, its all in those *.cab files but getting desperate here...!)
Anyone else have this kind of problem before? maybe with a different file that won\'t install?
