My parents bought a new computer with one of those free Vista upgrades at the begining of the year.
Now being as they are scared to put a disc into the dvd tray they left it to me to install.
Bassically what came with it was a disc that you first stuck into it and it apparently updated all the drivers to work with Vista then you bung Vista in and wait a while.
After about 2 to three hours of waiting round it told me that it couldn't install it.
The specs of it easily surpass what is required for Vista (I'm not at the computer but at a guess), it's got 2 GB of RAM and decent dual core and a passable video card, I can't remember what it scored on the test sheet but it scored well.
Can anyone suggest what to do to get it to install without formatting the computer?
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It said something along the lines of. "Vista could not be installed, the computer has restored your previous settings."
Satans..... hints.....
Just wanted to throw that in...
Satans..... hints.....
More seriously, does the upgrade disc allow you to do a clean install? Because upgrades are still not recommended, and clean installs keeps all your files (unless you tell it to format the disk somewhere)
So are there 2 discs you have?
1) vista driver disc
2) vista install disc
Possibly, this may be the best option as I assumed a clean install means crush kill destroy everything. I'd need to go back to their place to check though
Yeah the retailer had it's own driver disc (that you install first) then you shove the install disc in. I assume it's done this way so once Vista installs you have all the drivers you need and don't have any issues.
Satans..... hints.....
Once the in-place upgrade is complete, perhaps that driver disc can be used to install Vista drivers for any devices that were improperly installed. The documentation on Vista installation is a bit strange. It kinda implies that all installations ("clean" or upgrade) involve a clean install of Vista with application and data migration.
You could image your system beforehand in case the in-place upgrade hoses things. Symantec offers a 15 day trial of Ghost if you don't have imaging software. And microsoft has Ximage.