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Old 10-05-2006   #2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: Vista RC1 update failure

Hi,

Probably not much you can do at this point, the old installation is probably
corrupted now and the new one will not complete. Format the installation
partition and do a clean install instead. Upgrades between builds of a beta
product are always iffy, even though this particular scenario is supported,
and this is why there are lots of warnings about not counting on them to do
everything right.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"VT Phantos" <VTPhantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:902D3DB1-80C0-422A-8DEF-88048BEE1B49@microsoft.com...
> I was trying to update my copy of Vista Beta 2 to the newly released
> Release
> Candidate 1 using the the DVD I was sent, the update went ok for awhile
> then
> about the last 90% or so it restarted. Upon finishing the restart the new
> Vista RC1 loading screen came up (The one with the green progress bar and
> the
> black background) then just after that a blue screen came up full of text
> and
> at the bottom I made out the line about it creating a dump file for some
> reason, but thats all I could make out since the screen was there and gone
> in
> 2 seconds. Then it restarts, and does it again..... endlessly. I used the
> memory tester program thats on the Vista RC1 DVD, but it passes all the
> tests. I'm not sure whats happened, or if theres a way around it.


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