Maverick

kgmarsch wrote:

> I am attempting to upgrade my XP SP2 to Vista Home but it just hangs at the
> 'Gathering Information' stage.
>
> Looking in the setup log dosn't show anything, the last entries in the file
> being:
>
> 2007-02-04 20:27:39, Info [0x0805b5] MIG CheckSkuCompatibility:
> upgrade allowed from Windows XP Home to Windows Vista Home Premium
> 2007-02-04 20:27:39, Info [0x080006] MIG Detected 21810 MB free on C:
> 2007-02-04 20:27:39, Info [0x080009] MIG Detected 0 reusable MB on C:
> 2007-02-04 20:27:39, Info MIG Setup requires 6757 MB on
> windows partition
> 2007-02-04 20:27:39, Info MIG Setup requires 348 MB on
> system partition
>
> I've left it for hours at this and nothing happens, no errors, nothing.
>

Out of curiosity here, did you ever dual boot this system with another os?
I know that I installed a long time ago on my old Win98 machine, Solaris
x86. A UNIX os. And I was able to dual boot it. I got tired of it
after a while and just inserted a micro floppy and booted it with a back
up copy of windows to do an FDISK/MBR on the hard drive.
Well, after rebooting I got an OS not found error. I then used the OEM
CD to reinstall the os and after the installation was done, I still got
an OS not found error. Apparently some things are not overwritten or
erased and may be your problem. But then that is my guess.