Can't upgrade from XP Media Center Edition to Vista Home Premium

[Guest]

I have an HP Media Center PC (m7060n). I've run the Vista Upgrade Advisor.
I've installed all Windows updates, all HP updates. Ran in-depth virus and
spyware scans. I have plenty of everything (Pentium 4 with 3 GHz, 100
gigabytes of C:\ drive available, 3 gigabytes of RAM).

I disabled anti-virus, spyware and firewall. HP suggested that I unplug and
uninstall the drivers for all peripherals (printers, speakers, camera), which
I did.

The Vista DVD runs fine and goes through all the steps until it comes to
Completing Installation. It gets to 59-65%, then tries to reboot into Vista
and fails. This loops. I get a message saying "Windows failed to start
because of a recent hardware or software change." It gives me the option to
go to Start-Up Repair. I've tried this twice. It runs for hours (4 last
time) and seems to hang. I have to power off the machine and roll back to XP
Media Center Edition.

I've been back and forth with Microsoft and HP. They keep saying to disable
more things. Right now, my plan is to unplug and uninstall drivers for all
peripherals, disable everything that I have been disabling and then run
msconfig and uncheck Load Startup Items and Load System Services, reboot and
try the upgrade again.

Thought I'd throw the problem in here and see if anyone has any advice
before I spend another 3-4 hours on this. That's what my upgrade atempts
have been taking.

Thanks so much for any help.

 

[Jane C]

Don't just disable anti-virus and anti-spyware. Uninstall them first, along
with any CD burning software, or other utilities that added drivers, such as
Alcohol or Daemon Tools. Uninstall any 3rd party firewall software. Also
disable any BIOS antivirus.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jane,

I get firewall, anti-virus, spyware, etc. through my AOL account. I don't
have Norton or the like. Microsoft said that AOL should not be a problem, if
everything within is disabled. Don't have any 3rd party firewalls or spyware
protection. It's all in Windows XP and AOL.

I have a Media Center PC, so to uninstall all drivers for CD/DVD creation, I
might as well re-format the C:\ drive. But my system restore disks install
Windows XP. I don't have anything like Alcohol and Daemon Tools or a BIOS
anti-virus.

Thanks for your input.

 

[rcholla32]

I have an HPMediaCenterPC (m7060n).  I've run theVistaUpgrade Advisor.  
I've installed all Windows updates, all HP updates.  Ran in-depth virusand
spyware scans.  I have plenty of everything (Pentium 4 with 3 GHz, 100
gigabytes of C:\ drive available, 3 gigabytes of RAM).

I disabled anti-virus, spyware and firewall.  HP suggested that I unplug and
uninstall the drivers for all peripherals (printers, speakers, camera), which
I did.

TheVistaDVD runs fine and goes through all the steps until it comes to
Completing Installation.  It gets to 59-65%, then tries to reboot intoVista
and fails.  This loops.  I get a message saying "Windows failed to start
because of a recent hardware or software change."  It gives me the option to
go to Start-Up Repair.  I've tried this twice.  It runs for hours (4 last
time) and seems to hang.  I have to power off the machine androllbacktoXPMediaCenterEdition.

I've beenbackand forth with Microsoft and HP.  They keep saying to disable
more things. Right now, my plan is to unplug and uninstall drivers for all
peripherals, disable everything that I have been disabling and then run
msconfig and uncheck Load Startup Items and Load System Services, reboot and
try the upgrade again.

Thought I'd throw the problem in here and see if anyone has any advice
before I spend another 3-4 hours on this.  That's what my upgrade atempts  
have been taking.

Thanks so much for any help.

ok if u have vista right now and you didnt want it how do u go back
because my computer came with out the media center cd