Unable to repair vista

[Gaijin01]

I have been trying for ever to do an upgrade install, vista home premium 64 over vista home premium 64 to solve some WU problems but haven’t had any luck. I have no service packs installed, and are trying to upgrade from a non service pack vista disk. It seems to skip asking me if I want to upgrade at all. It goes like this

Insert vista DVD
Click install now
Product key screen (i don't put it in right now)
Choose version (home premium 64)
Agree to license
>>This is where it gets different<<
It asks to select partition (I dual boot xp)

After I choose the partition that contains my vista installation it gives me a warning that files may already be there and they will be moved to windows.old
I went ahead and agreed once and it went to the screen that said copying files 0%... at which point I clicked cancel. I was afraid to leave it to see if it would eventually ask if I wanted to upgrade. I thought maybe it was the disk, so to check I took another computer (I own a computer shop) and installed vista using the same disk, and then tried the upgrade with that same disk here is how it went:

Insert vista DVD
Click install now
Product key screen (i don't put it in right now)
Choose version (home premium 64)
Agree to license
Do you want to install latest updates (Did not get this screen before)
The choice to upgrade (which was enabled)

I even partitioned the hard drive off first to see if I could get it to ask me to choose a partition, but it didn’t. What gives? My computer has all the updates up to SP1, could one of those updates change something that affects how the DVD setup procedure goes?

(the root problem is that I couldn’t install SP1 with a error code of 0xc01a001d of which no one on earth has a workable solution)

I absolutely cannot do a clean install. I wonder if after its initial coping files stage it would ask me about upgrade, but I was too afraid to risk it. Anyone know what update or reason the same install disc acts differently on my computer versus the "dummy" one?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Gaijin01, welcome to Vista Forums!



What's the reason you can't do a clean install, do you know of this at the link below?


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html?ltr=C

 

[Gaijin01]

Heh, no I guess I should have said I CAN do one, I have been repairing computers for 10 years, by "can't" I mean I have too many configurations that I have made and it just is not an option. There has to be a reason why the disk operates completly differntly on one system than on another...

I don't have an upgrade edition it is the regular edition, I am trying to "upgrade" as a repair install...

 

[Ed Canuck]

Have you tried upgrading from within Vista instead of booting the DVD?

Ed

 

[Gaijin01]

that is exactly what I am trying to do, I am not booting from the disc, all of this is happening from within windows, however it never even shows the screen about choosing to upgrade or not, it skips to partition selection...

 

[Ed Canuck]

According to Upgrade to another edition of Windows Vista, you can't upgrade to the same edition that's already installed.

Does this fit with what you're experiencing?

Ed

 

[Gaijin01]

Im sorry that is not correct, its called an uin place upgrade. As I said in my post I have put together a second system and it works fine on it, upgrading from the same edition. The information you linked to says nothing of the sort.

This procedure is known as a repair install or in-place upgrade.

 

[Ed Canuck]

Sorry, you're right.

Installation choices for consumer versions of Windows Vista (32-bit only) has a table at the end of it that says you can, but I haven't been able to find any detailed info about it.

You might try http://www.techsupportforum.com/; they have some knowledgable Microsoft people there.

If you ever find out, let us know.

Ed

 

[Gaijin01]

I opened a ticket with microsoft so we will see what they say, they have me running system readiness tool right now, ill post back with the results...