Vista Upgrade Advisor Issue

[Barry Watzman]

Well, the Vista upgrade advisor tells me I can't run Vista at all,
period, because there isn't enough space on drive C: (16 gigs with 6
gigs free).

It completely ignores the 32 Gigabyte drive D: partition which is
totally empty (32 gigs free) and which is where I intend to install
Vista (dual boot).

In my view, the advisor should not make the blanket assumption that
Vista is to be installed in the C: partition that is running XP.

 

[Richard Urban]

The upgrade advisor is just that. It tells whether your "present" operating
system, which happens to be on drive C:, can be upgraded. You do not have
enough free space to do so.

If you want to install to drive D:, you need to perform a clean install on
D: and then reinstall all of your programs.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[DMB]

Just goes to show you: you can't make EVERYTHING idiot-proof . . .

-- Dave

 

[Chad Harris]

The Upgrade Advisor may be accurate as to real-estate but it is wrong in
many many categories on many many boxes and I've renamed it as the
Delusional Upgrade Advisor Prone to Fantasy Projections. Perhaps the MSFT
team responsible for it plans to enter it for a Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize
for Literature in the fiction category.

When run it says that I need to replace these two devices:

1) Intel (R) 82801BA Ultra ATA Controller NOPE WRONG MSFT
2) VIA Rev 5 or Later Serial Host Controller VIA Technologies (VIA OHCI
Compliant IEEE Serial Host Controller) NOPE WRONG MSFT
3) Santa Cruz Voyetra Turtle Beach Sound Card NOPE WRONG MSFT

The Upgrade Advisor took three swings and struck out three times. The World
Series last night proved that's not a good way to score.

This has proved wrong for every build from July 2005 to the Escrow build.

I also have also noticed that every build since 5472 has had a setup error
for me on that box when I run it from XP on a dual boot that says I need to
update an IDE controller when I click on custom setup to send it to a target
drive. I solve this problem by simply restarting and letting setup run from
the restart and it always runs flawlessly. The bios of course then dictates
my drive letters which revert to normal if you boot to XP on a dual boot,
and could be reghacked to anyway you wanted them if you were bothered all
that much by the change. It does come into play when you type in file
paths, and I've noticed that if you want to save a notepad you accessed from
the Vista Desktop that is on the XP desktop (I shortcut to the XP desktop
from the Vista desktop because it saves a lot of time and real estate in
copying all but files I want in a Vista folder) you have to change the file
path to be able to save/close the notepad to a Vista file path, like
E:\Users\Vista Profile\Documents for example.

It named 3 things on one of my older boxes it said can't run Vista and the
box smokes with Vista on every build since July 2005 (that'd be a whole
bunch of 'em on DVD --I haven't counted them) through 5840 the Escrowed
version but I haven't lol been putting on the daily builds the Softies use
to artificially probably make RTM Build 6000.yadayada maybe the yadas are
zeros as Mr. Thurrott and others are reporting or projecting.

Vista works very well on that box despite the Upgrade Advisor's Fiction, and
many people who said I couldn't get the TBSC Vintage 2001 sound card driver
up and running on Vista which works perfectly if you use a workaround to get
the driver in. They were wrong and that card has always provided very nice
quality sound although to be sure the years have brought on many good ones.

CH