Kevin

"Ed Stoddard" <EdStoddard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA25FB90-760D-4008-BBD4-4C7ADA5425CA@microsoft.com...
> Kevin,
>
> Have you tried uninstalling any software that Windows Upgrade Advisor
> suggests is incaptible with Vista? You know, programs like Nero, security
> software, various utility programs. Did you make certain you have all the
> latest updates from Microsoft for your current WinXP? Do you have enough
> disk space? To avoid external hardware from causing problems, you may
> simply
> want to try your installation with just your monitor, keyboard and mouse.
>

Hi Ed, thanks for your response.

This is a lab system and is dual boot with XP Pro on each drive. There are
two 80GB drives. I have 1GB of RAM. The target drive (D) is a skeleton
system that I set up from scratch and was newly formatted to do the
install/upgrade and is XP Pro with all the latest patchware from MS and
nothing else. It has IE7 and Windows Live Messenger but otherwise it is all
current XP updates. The setup logs are very lengthy but I don't know how to
read them so I don't quite understand the INFO lines in the logs. Disk space
is plentiful as the existing OS takes up about 9GB out of about 76GB
available.

I do have other hardware installed including a scanner which the advisor
says will not work. Had not occurred to me to remove it; good idea. The
other hardware is the printer. I also have a PCI card for USB and Firewire
which could be removed but there is no indication it is not compatible but I
will try removing it anyway.

I have checked the BIOS and there are is no AV software that can be modified
or deleted. I checked with Dell and the BIOS is at the latest level and
there is nothing to indicate that they are going to release another rev.

I saw on another post looking at permissions. I ran the upgrade as
administrator but I will double check it in that boot.

Appreciate the good ideas and will try them out. Will let you know tomorrow
or so how things pan out.

Kevin