"cannot write to boot sector..." DURING Windows Vista UPGRADE inst

[Guest]

i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the "Extracting"
process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the registry
and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling the
Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically protects
it.

PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a partition
(my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Sam

 

[Troy McClure]

please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
solid.

 

[Guest]

well then explain how to partition my drive because i downloaded magic
partition and it says i cant

please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
solid.

i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the
"Extracting"
process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the registry
and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling the
Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically
protects
it.

PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a partition
(my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Sam

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If he is a volume license customer he may not have that option, Troy.

please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
solid.

i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the
"Extracting"
process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the
registry
and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling
the
Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically
protects
it.

PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a
partition
(my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Sam