DAEMON Tools - Vista Ultimate Upgrade from Digital Locker- Please

[Guest]

Hello.

Re: XP Pro SP 2 -> Vista Ultimate Upgrade

Please forgive me in advance, as I was frustrated when I wrote this.

I purchaes the upgrade windows vista ultimate. Might I tell you, I am very
disappointed. I am very intelligent when it comes to computers. I purchased
the downlaodable version of the ultimate upgrade, from circuit city, and been
tryng for 3 days, off and on, visiting web pages, trying to find the solution
why vista keeps failing on the compatability check and tells me to uninstall
DAEMON Tools, when I have reinstalled it and uninstalled it, manually
uninstalled it, used registry cleaners, deleted files, and still the same
message. I understand this version of windows went under extensive beta
testing, however something has been missed. I didn't spend $250+ dollars,
for an upgrade version, just to start from scratch with a clean install, I
wanted to upgrade, and not lose anything but I have tried everyting to
resolve this problem, thanks for anyone who can help out!

mario

 

[Kerry Brown]

Hello.

Re: XP Pro SP 2 -> Vista Ultimate Upgrade

Please forgive me in advance, as I was frustrated when I wrote this.

I purchaes the upgrade windows vista ultimate. Might I tell you, I am
very
disappointed. I am very intelligent when it comes to computers. I
purchased
the downlaodable version of the ultimate upgrade, from circuit city, and
been
tryng for 3 days, off and on, visiting web pages, trying to find the
solution
why vista keeps failing on the compatability check and tells me to
uninstall
DAEMON Tools, when I have reinstalled it and uninstalled it, manually
uninstalled it, used registry cleaners, deleted files, and still the same
message. I understand this version of windows went under extensive beta
testing, however something has been missed. I didn't spend $250+ dollars,
for an upgrade version, just to start from scratch with a clean install, I
wanted to upgrade, and not lose anything but I have tried everyting to
resolve this problem, thanks for anyone who can help out!

mario

Have you posted your question on the Daemon Tools web forum?

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/index.php

 

[Guest]

No, I have not. I have read their forums and performed the manual uninstalls
and conventional uninstalls provided by the site, but Vista Upgrade belives
the program is still installed. But why should this prevent Vista from
upgrading? From what I understand Daemon Tools works on the new Vista
install with the latest version. Why have the upgrade setup abort on this
find? If anyone with less computer knowledge (I build, repair, and upgrade
systems) than I were to purchase this software, they would just do a clean
install or obtain a refund. My opinion is so much testing went into this new
windows OS, why is Vista Upgrade aborting on such a simple item?

thank you

mario

 

[Kerry Brown]

Somewhere there is still a registry entry or a dll still loading that is
causing Vista to think the program is installed. I'd post your question on
their forum where their tech support may know how to solve the problem.

 

[Paul Smith]

No, I have not. I have read their forums and performed the manual
uninstalls
and conventional uninstalls provided by the site, but Vista Upgrade
belives
the program is still installed. But why should this prevent Vista from
upgrading? From what I understand Daemon Tools works on the new Vista
install with the latest version. Why have the upgrade setup abort on this
find? If anyone with less computer knowledge (I build, repair, and
upgrade
systems) than I were to purchase this software, they would just do a clean
install or obtain a refund. My opinion is so much testing went into this
new
windows OS, why is Vista Upgrade aborting on such a simple item?

Older versions of Daemon Tools driver could leave the system unbootable.
Have a look and see if the driver DT uses is still listed in the device
manager.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

I have gone through uninstall methods for all old Daemon Tools install (Dont
remember which version I was using) and still no luck, I have read every
manual uninstall method there is, using registry crawlers and cleaners to
disable, export, delete, destroy all mentions of drivers, and dlls. From PnP
BIOS Extension to sptd.sys files, and registry entries. The question is, why
can not Vista Ultimate upgrade because of this program? I have not read any
where, the reasoning why Vista Ultimate requires this program and all of its
entries and DLLs to be removed in order to continue. This is not anm issue
with Daemon Tools, it is with Vista Ultimate Upgrade, after all of its
testing, a method should have been installed to remove automatically or
continue without automatically without this much disruption in someones life.
The amount of work, and reading, and searching I have done in order to come
to the conclusion is Windows Vista is far from perfect and still has errors
and bugs that still need ironing out in the Upgrade phase, otherwise they
should not market the upgrade portion, of Windows Vista if it can not or will
not cleanly upgrade to the next version without so much user frustration
because I installed a program Windows Vista does not seem to like.
My system is more than capable hardware wise. I ran the online advisors, and
upgrade compatabilities, I uninstalled the program, but Vista still is
locating these files, all though no longer in use, somewhere. Is there a
install log, or other event viewer I can use, or a upgrade install debug
feature?

Thanks for any help, and thanks alot for your responses.

mario