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    Vista or Windows 7 upgrade aborts

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Digiti, Jan 2, 2010.

  1. Digiti

    Digiti Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a Dell Inspiron 1505 laptop that is running WinXP Media Center Sp3 . I am trying to do a in place upgrade to Vista from the Dell upgrade disks.. Every thing goes fine until "Expanding Files" then the install aborts with this message:"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed. Any changes that were made to your computer during the upgrade". I did a google search for a fix that involved changing a value in the registry In the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E976-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} i.e. change Upperfilters value to PartMgr. Unfortunately that value was the default for my registry key so change could be made. Some other fixes involved the renaming of Upperfilter.bak to Upperfilters unfortunately this .bak value does not exist in my registry.
    In addition the same error occurs when trying to upgrade to Windows 7. Is this because of presence of Dell's hidden Media Direct and restore partitions?
    I know a clean Vista install is better but since I got Xp the way I want it, I would like to keep my XP configuration settings if possible. An "upgrade" to Windows 7 from Win XP is a clean install in any case Can you help? Thanks.





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    Digiti, Jan 2, 2010
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