Sue Smith

Well, finally installed, but had to completely wipe the disk and install from
bootable DVD.

Seems that just having XP on the disk caused it to fail, even why it was
supposed to be doing a clean install.



"Sue Smith" wrote:

> Unfortunately nothing since the once that is on there right now, which was
> 12/2004.
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
> > Is there a BIOS update available for your motherboard?
> >
> > "Sue Smith" <SueSmith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0BBC0A79-DBBB-4375-A151-E31CFB69AC28@microsoft.com...
> > >I have been trying to upgrade XP Professional to Vista on a Dell Inspiron
> > > 5150, bu the installation eventually fails after installing all the files
> > > with an error "Windows could not update registry data in the
> > > installation".
> > >
> > > The "Upgrade Adviser" found an issue with older driver for wireless
> > > network
> > > card, but I installed newer version, and that is now fine.
> > >
> > > I have also tried a 'clean' install, rather than an upgrade, and get the
> > > same error - which would suggest it is a hardware/disk/file problem rather
> > > than some existing drivers/apps on the machine.
> > >
> > > The ISO DVD is fine and I have verified the Sha checksum.
> > >
> > > Any ideas anyone?
> > >
> > > cheers.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sue
> > >
> > >
> >
> >