XPsp2 upgrade to Vista Ultimate RC1 fails during "Gathering files"

[Guest]

After cloning my HD for the purpose, I attempted to upgrade my WinXP SP2 to
Vista Ultimate RC1. The process proceeds normally, entering the product key,
etc, and completes the "Copying Windows files" phase successfully. However,
about 35% of the way through the "Gathering files" phase, it throws up the
message, "Windows installation encountered an error and cannot continue,"
whereupon the process terminates and I'm back to my WinXP desktop. I have
gone through this twice, with the error occurring in the same place both
times.

My system meets all of the criteria for Vista Capable and I had disabled my
antivirus (AVG).

What could be the problem here?

 

[Rock]

"Upgrader"wrote

After cloning my HD for the purpose, I attempted to upgrade my WinXP SP2
to
Vista Ultimate RC1. The process proceeds normally, entering the product
key,
etc, and completes the "Copying Windows files" phase successfully.
However,
about 35% of the way through the "Gathering files" phase, it throws up the
message, "Windows installation encountered an error and cannot continue,"
whereupon the process terminates and I'm back to my WinXP desktop. I have
gone through this twice, with the error occurring in the same place both
times.

My system meets all of the criteria for Vista Capable and I had disabled
my
antivirus (AVG).

What could be the problem here?

You should post to the Vista newsgroup. This one is for the XP OS.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

Or on the web at:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx