I have had success after problems like yours by deleting all partitions (
not just formatting ) first on the hard drive I am going to install it on.
"Bodo" <Bodo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I had XP Media Centre on my AMD 4400+ & decided to upgrade to Vista
> All good - purchased Vista Home Premium and installed it (on a temporary
> drive). This allowed me dual boot between Vista32 and XP Media while I
> decided that this will work for me
> I then ordered a Vista 64 dvd.
> I formatted my "C" drive to ensure a clean install
> I processed the clean install without entering licensing information
> The clean install failed right at the end with "The installation was not
> successful"
> I re-installed, this time successful
> I then ran the software again and used the "upgrade" option
> But this fails every time with exactly the same message at the same place
>
> The last few steps are:
> Copy windows files - successful
> Expand files - successful
> Install features - successful
> Install Updates - successful
> Complete installation
> Reboot
> The installation was not successful
> Reboot & rollback to unlicensed version
>
> How do I continue from here?