stuck during install

I am upgrading to Vista from my XP laptop. It gets to the install form. It copys all files, it gathers files, it expands files, it install features and then at the last step just stops at the "completing upgrade" stage. Any advice or help?
Thanks

Hmm, did you try booting into safe mode to see if it will finish up the install? It worked for me, although upgrades at this stage of development in Vista is still rough around edges. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Ewebfoot" wrote in message

I am upgrading to Vista from my XP laptop. It gets to the install form. It copys all files, it gathers files, it expands files, it install features and then at the last step just stops at the "completing upgrade" stage. Any advice or help?
Thanks

Try another method of install. http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
What usually helps if you copy the files from the extracted ISO to your harddrive directly as the install runs better and usually much faster - it's certainly worth a try :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Laszlo Dobos" wrote in message

hi friend,
in my opinion vista upgrade is not so secure than clean install (not yet!), so save your datas in safe mode and try to format your disk and install vista in clean mode.
-- Best Regards, Laszlo Dobos

hi friend,
in my opinion vista upgrade is not so secure than clean install (not yet!), so save your datas in safe mode and try to format your disk and install vista in clean mode.
-- Best Regards, Laszlo Dobos

I have exactly same problem. Everything worked fine up till the "completing installation" stage. I burned a DVD, installed from the drive into an external harddrive's primary logical partition. All the Vista folders/files look likes they are there when I browse to that folder. When the system reboots the second time, it wants to install to that same directory where the files are already located. No other choices are available. The installation doesn't know where it left off at that point. I thought about trying to have a dual boot open up into that Vista partition to perhaps finish the process off but haven't wanted to mess quite yet with the new boot system files and end up losing references to my current XP boot partition on my C drive. As we know, boot.ini is now a legacy mechanism.
The only other idea I can think of is to move all the files from the logical drives (D:,E:) onto the external hard drive to free up enough space on my primary bootable hard disk and and maybe the DVD with ISO will like that better. Greg Hazzard
"Ewebfoot" wrote in message

I am upgrading to Vista from my XP laptop. It gets to the install form. It copys all files, it gathers files, it expands files, it install features and then at the last step just stops at the "completing upgrade" stage. Any advice or help?
Thanks

I agree with you Laszlo, upgrade is just not there yet, I hope to see better reliability and performance by beta 2. In the mean time, I suggest and clean install. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Laszlo Dobos" wrote in message

hi friend,
in my opinion vista upgrade is not so secure than clean install (not yet!), so save your datas in safe mode and try to format your disk and install vista in clean mode.
-- Best Regards, Laszlo Dobos

Also had this problem, upgrading on desktop though. I just restarted my computer and it went to the upgrade failed restoring to previous desktop screen.
What a shame to get that far and have it just hang at the end :(
"Ewebfoot" wrote:

I am upgrading to Vista from my XP laptop. It gets to the install form. It copys all files, it gathers files, it expands files, it install features and then at the last step just stops at the "completing upgrade" stage. Any advice or help?
Thanks