Stuck during install

[Guest]

I am upgrading to Vista from my XP laptop. It gets to the install form. It
copys all files, it gathers files, it expands files, it install features and
then at the last step just stops at the "completing upgrade" stage. Any
advice or help?

Thanks

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Hmm, did you try booting into safe mode to see if it will finish up the
install? It worked for me, although upgrades at this stage of development in
Vista is still rough around edges.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Try another method of install.
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted

What usually helps if you copy the files from the extracted ISO to your
harddrive directly as the install runs better and usually much faster - it's
certainly worth a try )

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[Laszlo Dobos]

hi friend,

in my opinion vista upgrade is not so secure than clean install (not yet!),
so save your datas in safe mode and try to format your disk and install
vista in clean mode.

 

[hazz]

I have exactly same problem. Everything worked fine up till the "completing
installation" stage. I burned a DVD, installed from the drive into an
external harddrive's primary logical partition. All the Vista folders/files
look likes they are there when I browse to that folder. When the system
reboots the second time, it wants to install to that same directory where
the files are already located. No other choices are available. The
installation doesn't know where it left off at that point. I thought about
trying to have a dual boot open up into that Vista partition to perhaps
finish the process off but haven't wanted to mess quite yet with the new
boot system files and end up losing references to my current XP boot
partition on my C drive. As we know, boot.ini is now a legacy mechanism.

The only other idea I can think of is to move all the files from the logical
drives (D:,E onto the external hard drive to free up enough space on my
primary bootable hard disk and and maybe the DVD with ISO will like that
better. Greg Hazzard

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I agree with you Laszlo, upgrade is just not there yet, I hope to see better
reliability and performance by beta 2. In the mean time, I suggest and clean
install.
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[Guest]

Also had this problem, upgrading on desktop though. I just restarted my
computer and it went to the upgrade failed restoring to previous desktop
screen.

What a shame to get that far and have it just hang at the end