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| | Can't Install Vista Home premium upgrade - "can't install a file and quits After about 20 minutes of installation time, all of a sudden I get a message that a file cannot be copied/installed (NO mention of file) and installation quits. Now when I start the computer up I get a screen that forces me to select either continue update or go to earlier version of windows (listed as a windows boot manager) - would like to get ride of this as it defaults to windows setup and then it cannot continue. Obviously if I could get Vista installed there wouldnt be a problem, I removed the files that were suggested with Vista compatibility. Now I wish I had not tried this, but I bought 2 other copies for other computers! Dell 9300 with Windows Media Center XP. |
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| | Re: Can't Install Vista Home premium upgrade - "can't install a file and quits Actually, the message is :"windows installation cannot continue because a required driver could not be installed"; this occurs during the expanding files part of installation. As mentioned there is no mention of the driver name, and the results of the installation are not saved. |
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| | Re: Can't Install Vista Home premium upgrade - "can't install a file and quits using the BIOS, disable all devices not needed for install. like extra drives, usb, serial/parallel ports. and for sure disable over clocking. try again. once the installation is complete,use the BIOS to enable all the turned off devices. mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com <vincen11@msu.edu> wrote in message news:1171938594.534994.248030@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com... After about 20 minutes of installation time, all of a sudden I get a message that a file cannot be copied/installed (NO mention of file) and installation quits. Now when I start the computer up I get a screen that forces me to select either continue update or go to earlier version of windows (listed as a windows boot manager) - would like to get ride of this as it defaults to windows setup and then it cannot continue. Obviously if I could get Vista installed there wouldnt be a problem, I removed the files that were suggested with Vista compatibility. Now I wish I had not tried this, but I bought 2 other copies for other computers! Dell 9300 with Windows Media Center XP. |
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| | Re: Can't Install Vista Home premium upgrade - "can't install a fi Same problem still occurs at the same time in the installation process. Any other suggestions?? Thanks "mikeyhsd" wrote: > using the BIOS, disable all devices not needed for install. > like extra drives, usb, serial/parallel ports. > and for sure disable over clocking. > try again. > once the installation is complete,use the BIOS to enable all the turned off devices. > > mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com > > <vincen11@msu.edu> wrote in message news:1171938594.534994.248030@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com... > After about 20 minutes of installation time, all of a sudden I get a > message that a file cannot be copied/installed (NO mention of file) > and installation quits. Now when I start the computer up I get a > screen that forces me to select either continue update or go to > earlier version of windows (listed as a windows boot manager) - would > like to get ride of this as it defaults to windows setup and then it > cannot continue. > > Obviously if I could get Vista installed there wouldnt be a problem, > I removed the files that were suggested with Vista compatibility. Now > I wish I had not tried this, but I bought 2 other copies for other > computers! Dell 9300 with Windows Media Center XP |
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