Installation failure - boot configuration

[Craig]

During the Vista RC1 upgrade for a Windows XP SP2 PC, the installation
failed advising "The upgrade was cancelled". Further error message stated
"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation
cannot proceed".

PC is a Pentium 4 HT, with a single SATA II drive. All virus and firewall
programs have been disabled prior to commencing the upgrade. After trying
various things I have now run out of options.

Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same issue. I too do not know how to proceed...

 

[ko van Zeeland]

During the Vista RC1 upgrade for a Windows XP SP2 PC, the installation

failed advising "The upgrade was cancelled". Further error message
stated "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.
Installation cannot proceed".

PC is a Pentium 4 HT, with a single SATA II drive. All virus and
firewall programs have been disabled prior to commencing the upgrade.
After trying various things I have now run out of options.

Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

That meens Vista doesn't recognize the drive after the update and cannot
finish.
You could try by setup selecting advanced and load drivers for your controller,
or select in the BIOS (if available) to emulate a PATA drive.

ko van Zeeland

 

[Guest]

This is the instruction I received, which fixed the problem and now I have
completed my upgrade:

"This bug happens when partition manager is missing as upper filter for
disk. The following steps will fix this:

1. Open
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} using regedit.
2. Confirm that UpperFilters is empty and UpperFilters.bak is present.
3. Rename UpperFilters.bak to UpperFilters.
4. Reboot and re-attempt the upgrade."

Good luck

 

[Guest]

Hello Eric I attempted to fix Upperfilter but I do not have the
Upperfilter.bak . Do you have any suggestions. Please help.

 

[John Barnes]

What do you have in upper filters. PartMgr

Hello Eric I attempted to fix Upperfilter but I do not have the
Upperfilter.bak . Do you have any suggestions. Please help.