upgrading to vista ultimate from vista home basic

[Guest]

Hi

I am trying to upgrade from vista home to vista ultimate. I had been hanged
up at the "Expanding Files" section if installation process at 21% and it
never proceeds further. Can anyone please provide me a better solution for
upgrading. I had bought a DVD for vista ultimate.

Thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Have you disabled any antivirus software? Also, disable boot time protection
in the system BIOS.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Mark]

And, turn off the automatic update at end of installation. (This option is
one of the first you must answer during setup.)

 

[Guest]

Hi Rick,

I actualy boought a HP Compaq with windows vista basic and I had been given
symantec antivirus along with it. I didnt disable it. Anyhow I will give a
try for it.

Thank You

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dheeraj.

up at the "Expanding Files" section if installation process at 21% and it
never proceeds further.

How long is "never"? When I did a "repair install" of Vista a week or two
ago, it also hung up at this spot. I was about ready to hit the Reset
button when, finally, it continued. It must have stayed at that screen for
over 10 minutes, maybe a half-hour. And there were several other places in
the Setup process when I thought the computer must have died. And there was
NO feedback from Setup; sometimes no blinking drive lights or anything else
for a very long time. From start to opening desktop, the "in-place upgrade"
(from Vista Ultimate x64 to Vista Ultimate x64 again) took five hours!
:>( And I still had some tweaking to do after that.

So, how long was "never" in your case?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Guest]

Hi White,

The definition of "Never" in my case is around 10 hours when I reset the
installation and selected "Clean Install", it had completed in around 1 hr 40
min which is a reasonable time. Anyways i couldnt figure out the possible
reason for the failure installation of "Upgrading from vista home basic to
Vista Ultimate". Its still a mystery.

Regards,
Dheeraj

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dheeraj.

Ten hours is close enough to "never", I suppose. :>(

I had to reinstall Vista Ultimate x86 a few days ago. I did a clean install
on a new logical drive and it completed in less than two hours - not
counting the initial tweaking that we always have to do on a new
installation. The "Expanding Files" section took only a few minutes, not
much more than 10 minutes.

As I said, I've never been able to "upgrade" to any version of Vista, beta
or RTM, with the single exception of the "in-place upgrade" of Ultimate x64
that I did recently, which took 5 hours, plus re-tweaking.

Sorry I can't be more help.

Hi White,

My parents named me Robert Charles - for my grandfathers - and then always
called me "R. C.". The use of initials as nicknames is not uncommon in my
native Oklahoma, or here in Texas.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)