Cosmicray

Hey Jim,

unfortunately it didn't work. Same procedure as usual: "Disk read error" at
first boot attempt.

Although this 'brain-dead' Upgrade Advisor didn't find anything harmful at
all I'm pretty much convinced now that this must be some sort of hardware
issue.

Somebody told me that the type of memory-controller I have might not be
properly supported by the Vista installer, although it would be supported by
the OS once installed. If that really is the case I'm hoping for some sort of
fix by Microsoft (HELLO THERE!!!).

Otherwise I could try to get Vista on my Drive by using SB-Software. That
could be a way ... don't know yet.

But thanks for your kind help anyhow.

Just 'google-earthed' Madison, WI. Nice lakes you've got there. So you're on
the track team. What distances are you running??

Greetings,

Mike
(schneider@cosmicray.de)

"jimmy" wrote:

> I have, on my desktop, xp media center edition 2005 and i want to go to vista
> ultimate. i have done a destructive recovery already, which is ok because i
> want to do a clean install, and have spent almost 3 days working nonstop. So
> i guess i'll move on to my problem. First i had the problem of error
> 0x80070241 but i got past that quite easily. That happened during copying
> the files. My next problem is when it tries to expand the files. When doing
> a clean install, it hits 27% and then says it cannot update the boot
> configuration. So, as many other people have had this problem, i've googled
> it and found mainly one solution, which was to change the registry key
> UpperFilters.bak to UpperFilters and make sure it has PartMgr as that data.
> Well i looked for that and that was already like that. I updated my BIOS and
> i didn't find a scanner that protects the boot registry. I don't have any
> antivirus installed. I really don't have much installed, i just updated to
> microsoft update so it could receive the updates recommended for install. I
> have even tried using an image drive or whatever it's called because it
> worked for one person. If you need any information about my computer just
> ask and i appreciate any help that i can get.
>
> i believe it's supposed to reboot at this 27% mark, and i don't know what to
> do to fix it.
>
> i've also tried not getting the upgrades and not putting in my registration
> key, but none of that changed anything. I've also done upgrades instead of
> clean installs and that only thing that changed was that it came up with the
> error at 21% instead of 27%.
>
> the error is: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.
> Installation cannot proceed." then i have to click ok and it closes.
>
> Any help with this will be greatly appreciated, and again, if you need to
> know anything just let me know and i'll give it to you.