Vista to 7 Upgrade failing right before 1st reboot

Sorry, didn't see Page 3 heh. Nope, it failed from the USB stick! It has to me my AIO image then, I';ll grab that image from the link someone posted,

It just takes SO long in between failed attempts to set up another install, it's possible that the Vista image is corrupted as well, I'm going to try an In Place Vista install now. I'll post back results, thanks for all of your help.

(Edit) Digital River is a bust, I need Ultimate Edition SP1, they don't have it. I have some other SP1 images with only Ultimate, I'll try one of those.

SIW2 said:

I expect ultimate is in the dig river ones. They usually contain all images. They just call them something different.

Nope, it's listed but no ISO is available.

I suspect something is really fooked with this vista install. Does vista use "recboot" to fix the boot sector? Any installer I use fails, even vista. I remember vista used to have a Grub loader, and that's missing here. It can't write to the boot loader, so it's failing all attempts at in place install.

Run a few Startup Repairs to check over the boot files and possibly repair.

Problem is, if the Active flag has moved or disappeared it won't repair until its replanted. So if we could see a snapshot of Partition Wizard boot CD map and listings we could at least spot if its awry.

Ok, I'm running a vista startup repair right now, it's taking a long time.

I use the Win 7 disk for the command?

I can't show you the partition map now, but I can tell you; it's flagged system/boot/active like it is supposed to be.

I may have a root kit so I'll check for that after it finishes repairing, if it ever finishes, this is the slowest laptop ever. That's why I wanted 7 in it.

Maybe I'll try windows 8, that does not used the same bizarre boot sector vishshite and 7 use.

It's important to first disinfect a possibly infected OS since it may not repair or do anything else until its clean.

Be sure to try the commands Si gave you to apply the bootable code in case Startup Repair won't.

I've got DART on this install disk, can that be used to help?

I knew that about the vista disk, I thought 7 was like that too, but I don't think it is.