Vista - Upgrade hangs when trying to Upgrade from XP to Vista

When I try to upgrade from XP to Vista the installation hangs at "Completing
Upgrade". The result cause me to cold boot and have the installation
rollback to XP. Any ideas on how to get around this?

Posting replies is sometimes difficult on this site. I responded once so
forgive the repeat.
Same thing happened to me. I was in a panic and "rolled" back to XP.
However, I tried again and this time I walked away at that point and came
back 1/2 hour later and Voila! It completed.. In other words, try it again
and give it time....

"Kingpin" wrote:

> When I try to upgrade from XP to Vista the installation hangs at "Completing
> Upgrade". The result cause me to cold boot and have the installation
> rollback to XP. Any ideas on how to get around this?

I have another problem, I can't get it to upgrade from XP Pro to Vista, The
upgrade feature is disabled and I only have the option to do a clean install

"troyboy" wrote:

> Posting replies is sometimes difficult on this site. I responded once so
> forgive the repeat.
> Same thing happened to me. I was in a panic and "rolled" back to XP.
> However, I tried again and this time I walked away at that point and came
> back 1/2 hour later and Voila! It completed.. In other words, try it again
> and give it time....
>
> "Kingpin" wrote:
>
> > When I try to upgrade from XP to Vista the installation hangs at "Completing
> > Upgrade". The result cause me to cold boot and have the installation
> > rollback to XP. Any ideas on how to get around this?

You have to run the Setup program within XP to get that option. It only
works for 32-bit Vista. 64-bit must be a clean install.
"Jeff H" <JeffH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C5761DD-AFA1-4408-A149-8EA929B36CCA@microsoft.com...
>I have another problem, I can't get it to upgrade from XP Pro to Vista, The
> upgrade feature is disabled and I only have the option to do a clean
> install
>
> "troyboy" wrote:
>
>> Posting replies is sometimes difficult on this site. I responded once so
>> forgive the repeat.
>> Same thing happened to me. I was in a panic and "rolled" back to XP.
>> However, I tried again and this time I walked away at that point and came
>> back 1/2 hour later and Voila! It completed.. In other words, try it
>> again
>> and give it time....
>>
>> "Kingpin" wrote:
>>
>> > When I try to upgrade from XP to Vista the installation hangs at
>> > "Completing
>> > Upgrade". The result cause me to cold boot and have the installation
>> > rollback to XP. Any ideas on how to get around this?