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Trouble Upgrading to Vista
PC specs: Dell XPS 400 3 GHz, 4GB of RAM Currently Running XP Media Center Edition SP2 ATI Radeon X1650 XT Graphics card 42.5 GB of free space left on HD I thought I had a great computer and after running the vista upgrade advisor I thought I was golden. I'm at the end of my rope here and debating on whether or not

vista compatability
At about 68% of completion phase, I get an error message saying the install failed and that I should run the Upgrade Advisor in order to determine the cause. The Upgrade Advisor certifies that the system can run Vista and reccomends the Business Edition. Any ideas? Thanks, in advance.

XP/Vista
Airmaxin Airma...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup The Upgrade Advisor passed and I was able to begin installing Vista Ultimate. In the middle of the installation, I got the "Upgrade could not be completed". The system rebooted and began to recover my XP installation.

Why It is Acceptable to Criticise Vista
In addition I copied my harddisc to an external drive so I would have been able to just copy it back in case XP-recovery failed. My Vista was started virtually via deamon tools and the vista upgrade advisor told me everything was good to go (and my hp computer has a sticker which reads "Vista Upgradable").

Why It is Acceptable to Criticise Vista
lenny le...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Went to run advisor yesterday and it failed because of an older version that it couldn't remove. Is there anywhere that i can get an old (beta) version of vista upgrade advisor? Thought that if i installed it and then uninstalled it,

Should Microsoft Protect Our Investment In Windows Software?
When it was released, Apple failed to communicate that the application transmits information to the company on a regular basis (which Apple says it does not keep). Check out our tour of Vista Beta 2 for a look at what's in the beta. Wondering if your computer is up to snuff? Try the Vista Upgrade Advisor beta.

Article>>>The Full Horror of Vista!!!!
I'm guessing many people assume as you and I did that when the Vista Upgrade Advisor says there's some "minor things" like unknown drivers, (had that too) that since the So after suffering more the annoyance than anything else of trying and failing the first time, I just did what I should have the first time.

Vista Ultimate doesn't install
I get 'bump out' with the recurring statement at the bottom of the screen reads "installation of Vista Ultyimate unsuccessfull, you will be returned to your previous version momentarily". No further explanation is given. I have ran Microsoft's online upgrade advisor and it actually recommends the Ultimate Version.

Windows Vista Premium will it work
In fairness, the Vista Upgrade Advisor is publicly available to answer those questions before they spended all their munnies. If X is failing, how is it failing? Or, to put it another way, if it didn't come in as a complaint but rather as a suggestion: would you want more data to help figure out what the

Upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate? -1st Report
The Upgrade Advisor passed and I was able to begin installing Vista Ultimate. In the middle of the installation, I got the "Upgrade could not be completed". The system rebooted and began to recover my XP installation. In the middle of that process, it went to a "black screen" and stayed there.

Upgrade Vista Home Premium to Ultimate
My favorite parts were: <quote> We began the upgrade process by running Microsoft's Upgrade Advisor tool, which informed us of which hardware and software The Vista upgrade process churned for a few hours before announcing that the upgrade had failed, and that we'd be delivered back to our previous Windows XP

Thoughts on Vista
I have spent the day trying to get my Dell XPS Gen 2 machine upgraded from XP to Vista. The Vista upgrade advisor sees no problem with upgrading and says the program will work but when I try to install the upgrade it runs the compatability check and stops there with: "You must make the following changes before

Installing Vista Business today........
The Windows Vista upgrade Advisor is not very good, it lulls you into thinking all will be fine but if you look around the hardware NGs you will find thousands of complaints about how hardware failed to work despite the upgrade advisor say it would. Here is just one story and its not a bad one but illustrates what

Great article going into technical superiority of SUSE Linux over ...
Alias aka@masked&anonymous.mx microsoft public windows vista general Richard Urban wrote: The upgrade advisor is NOT the last word. You are. Have you researched your I have not yet failed to return a computer to a customer in 100% working order - dependent only upon the capabilities of their installed hardware.

Installing Vista on top of Vista - and then getting an ...
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista general Hi Joe, You may not have missed anything. It could be that the download you made was corrupted in some fashion Scans about 30 sec's this error is the result-failed to scan if you want to continue using the advisor, remove and d/l the current file.

Vista installation hanging
It lists some of the other log files as well 927521 Windows Vista setup log file locations http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;927521 Most likely locations Why bother with a Upgrade Advisor if the software is just going to decide several hours into the installation that something is wrong.

Failed Vista Install
Mick Murphy MickMur...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup In you 1st post you say you are trying to do a dodgy clean install on a new hard drive with an "Nick Ursis" wrote: The system meets or exceeds all the stated requirements as well as passes the upgrade advisor.

Vista Ultimate Signature Edition - Install failed
Today I tried to install Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade, but the installation failed right near the end. This computer is Windows Vista Capable and I exceed What else did the upgrade advisor say could be a problem? There had to be more than just NIS, though maybe the very remnants of NIS left over from your

My computer dies during vista upgrade
Did you run the upgrade advisor? Uninstall all AV software, 3rd party firewalls, CD/DVD burning software, any system level utilities like defragmenters and In that case run the Windows Easy Transfer (WET) utility on the XP installation before the install of Vista to save data and settings to external media.

Upgrade path to Vista not possible from MCE2002
And I've yet to get the compatibility option to work with ANY of the software what did actually install but failed to work. So it raises again the question whether the Advisor is merely an admission of a bigger incompatibility problem with Vista as opposed to a fix. "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote: Upgrade