BSOD when upgrading XP to Vista

Hello,

I am having difficulties when upgrading windows XP to Vista business. It worked on couple machines, but there is one that is giving me troubles.

When i try to upgrade, Vista setup starts, and works fine with copying files, gathering files, and in the middle of installing files (i think) it asks to reboot. When it reboots, it gets BSOD 0x0000007B (inaccessible boot device)
I already tried to switch from IDE to AHCI, but its doing the same thing.
Please help

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I am sorry that you had to wait so long for an answer. Members who may have helped were probably discouraged because you did not include information required so that we could help.
http://www.vistax64.com/crashes-debugging/282419-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html

richc46 said:

I am sorry that you had to wait so long for an answer. Members who may have helped were probably discouraged because you did not include information required so that we could help.
http://www.vistax64.com/crashes-debugging/282419-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html

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Thanks for your reply.
Well i followed the instructions, but i am not able to find the saved zip file from the diagnostic tool. That`s one, and the second thing is, even if i mark to save the dump files, when i try t upgrade, there is no dump files in windows folder...

Lets try it another way. Can you boot into safe mode?

Ok, this is the story

I am currently running Windows XP SP3 on a brand new machine... CPU i5, 16GB ram, Gigabyte mb...
The XP is working fine, but i need to upgrade it to vista... So... when i run Vista setup from WinXp, the setup is running fine.
After copying files (Vista setup), then its going to (i think it was) collecting files, then extracting files. So far its ok, But after that, the setup is asking for a restart and when i restart the system i have two options:
1. Boot older version of Windows (WinXP)
2. Vista setup

When i click Vista setup, in order to continue with the upgrade, the logo is appearing only for a second and a BSOD is showing up. The error is 0x0000007B. (Inaccessible boot device). I already tried with the AHCI-IDE mode... same thing...( I even tried updating the sata controller drivers for AHCI...

If i press "Older version of Windows" its booting to WinXP, showing error that the upgrade was not successfully and everything is normal again...

The BSOD is not written in the minidump folder, even if i check the option to dump the mini file into log...
(anyway, i am an IT technician) so some of the basic things are already tested..

Also there are about 10 other pc machines, that i upgrade them from XPtoVista and then to Win7 successfully.

I've never tried an upgrade install on XP. Only a clean install. Try a clean install.

townsbg said:

I've never tried an upgrade install on XP. Only a clean install. Try a clean install.

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Well thats the problem, the software & hardware that we are using (the machines that are using) is ether old, not compatible with Win7, or we dont know the settings for them. So if we try clean install, 99% some of the hardware and software will not work. But with an upgrade, everything is ok, as on the other machines...

I have about 20 machines upgraded, and these are 6 left...

All I can suggest would be to disable any antivirus during this process, make sure the M/B BIOS is up to date especially the Chipset drivers. BSOD's are often hardware-related as you know so make sure all drivers are the latest.