Vista - "cannot write to boot sector..." DURING Windows Vista UPGRADE inst

i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the "Extracting"
process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the registry
and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling the
Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically protects
it.

PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a partition
(my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Sam

please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
solid.



"sam2k2002" <sam2k2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4F25E3F-FC44-45A7-B401-35434F90A909@microsoft.com...
>i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
> Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the
> "Extracting"
> process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the registry
> and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling the
> Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
> antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically
> protects
> it.
>
> PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a partition
> (my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks,
> Sam

well then explain how to partition my drive because i downloaded magic
partition and it says i cant

"Troy McClure" wrote:

> please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
> solid.
>
>
>
> "sam2k2002" <sam2k2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C4F25E3F-FC44-45A7-B401-35434F90A909@microsoft.com...
> >i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
> > Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the
> > "Extracting"
> > process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the registry
> > and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling the
> > Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
> > antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically
> > protects
> > it.
> >
> > PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a partition
> > (my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )
> >
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
>

If he is a volume license customer he may not have that option, Troy.

"Troy McClure" <g@s.com> wrote in message
news:A4D1B85D-3F25-4D61-91A4-7186A5510ECE@microsoft.com...
> please do a clean install. even when an upgarde succeeds, its NEVER 100%
> solid.
>
>
>
> "sam2k2002" <sam2k2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C4F25E3F-FC44-45A7-B401-35434F90A909@microsoft.com...
>>i get this message everytime i try to Upgrade my XP SP2 OS to Vista
>> Business.. it always goes through fine until the mid 20% of the
>> "Extracting"
>> process.. i've tried looking for the UpperFilters.bak file in the
>> registry
>> and its not there (a workthrough some have proposed). I have a feeling
>> the
>> Master Boot Record is protected by something, however ive disabled my
>> antivirus during the install and i dont think my BIOS automatically
>> protects
>> it.
>>
>> PLEASE NOTE: I am trying to Upgrade, not do a clean install on a
>> partition
>> (my disk seems to be unpartitionable, but thats a different problem =[ )
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>