Installation Crashes

[Guest]

Upgrade advisor tells me its good to install Ultimate, i get right up to
'Upgrading Windows' it then restarts and locks up and i need to hit restart
it will attemp this again a few times befroe rolling back to xp. Advisor
tells me there are no probs but there are four unknowns : Trend Micro common
firewall miniport, NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller, ATI T200 Unified
AVStream Driver and Creative Game Port,

 

[Charles W Davis]

The "four unknowns" are your problems. The firewall can be removed. Use the
Vista firewall. For the others, visit the manufacturer's web site and look
for drivers.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Remove any Anti Virus and Firewall programs(Trend) and try again.

 

[Guest]

I will try uninstalling the antivirus and firewall

 

[Guest]

OK , uninstalled anti-virus and firewall also disabled 'cool and quiet' in
bios, actually made it to 65 percent upgraded, it then restarted tried to
start up ,didnt and gets stuck in a boot loop .

 

[John Barnes]

Uninstall the drivers for the networking and video card. Unplug all USB
devices during the install, except the kb and mouse if needed. Use PS2 if
you have them.

 

[Guest]

I didnt find a solution to upgrading , so i took the easy option and just
did a backup to usb drive then clean install of vista ultimate, works fine.
Just means i have to spend a bit of time getting everything back the way i
want it, (i forgot to use files and settings wizard)

 

[John Barnes]

Files and settings wizard doesn't seem that reliable anyway judging by the
posts and my experience. Glad everything is working.