Vista Upgrades

[Gil Baron]

I tried install of Vista on my HP desktop that is six months old, says it is compatible, upgrade advisor says it is compatible and I followed instructions to the letter but in the last stages it got a blue screen after one of the restarts. I do have a new nvida high end PCIE graphics and two pci comm cards and a second hard drive added since purchsed and I must keep them but it is very frustrating. I know I shoud be on a Vista group but am not home and yanoff on my pdadoes not list groups. Where shoud I be?
DO NOT TRY UPGRADE WITHOUT AN IMAGE BACKUP. I DID UPGRADE INSTALL NOT FULL ANDLOST EVERYTHING. Thank god forAcronis backup!!!

 

[Gil Baron]

instructions to the letter but in the last stages it got a blue screen after one of the restarts. I do have a new

I found a way to proceed. During boot on the restart just select the boot menu key. The setup choice should be selected so just continue from there. It seems that there is a defect in the install process.
I am waiting for first start to complete now so I dont know if the upgrade worked yet?
If i does I will have to test my hundreds of aps and added hardware. I already was told by install that Nero Burning Rom will not run nor install. Nero did not update either so I am faced with a $49.95 ugrade if I stick with Nero.

 

[peter]

Life is a bitch at times
peter
I tried install of Vista on my HP desktop that is six months old, says it is
compatible, upgrade advisor says it is compatible and I followed
instructions to the letter but in the last stages it got a blue screen
after one of the restarts. I do have a new nvida high end PCIE graphics and
two pci comm cards and a second hard drive added since purchsed and I must
keep them but it is very frustrating. I know I shoud be on a Vista group but
am not home and yanoff on my pda does not list groups. Where shoud I be?
DO NOT TRY UPGRADE WITHOUT AN IMAGE BACKUP. I DID UPGRADE INSTALL NOT FULL
AND LOST EVERYTHING. Thank god forAcronis backup!!!

 

[Ork .]

I read somewhere:
Remove Nero before attempting to install Vista..

 

[Gil Baron]

The real cause was having two drives and the bios was set to try the wrong one first thus failure.