[mooney101]

The current situation is I have Xp installed on a raptor150 sata drive. I partition the drive and there is uncollated space I want to install Vista home premium update on. (i'm using the duel install method to get a clean install and want xp around for backup for awhile) during the install it stops and I get this error: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed" I've tried several solutions out their. Putting the PartMgr back in the registry and using xp install disk to use a "fixboot" in recovery mode and still a no go. It just wont install Vista on the partition.

One thing to note, I had install Vista installed at one point on the partition but couldn't get the dual boot to work. So i finally gave up and deleted vista and reformatted the partition. So at one point vista would install right. I know is should of just worked on the Dual boot thing but after 2 hours I wanted to give up so now I'm trying again. I'm wondering if from the first time it might have left some files behind that need removed on XP?

The only fix I can think of now is to reformat the whole drive install Vista then after the Vista install, partition the drive and use a backup of XP on the new partition and then find a way two dual boot after I use the backup to restore Xp on the new partition? Any other ideas?

Thanks
Mooney101

[mooney101]

Please Someone must no.

[mooney101]

Man i would of thought one person would know something.... This isn't good.

[jhhunt]

I have heard similar problems. I think the best way to do it is install vista first then xp.

[Rich-M]

No if you want Vista to boot both, it has to be second install to drive, and in fact that is really the only way to do it. The best thing to do would be to install a second drive which would end this isuue. It sounds like Vista cannot overwrite the mbr for some reason and is there another hard drive in this system that maybe holds the mbr? Another small partition maybe?

[mooney101]

Originally Posted by Rich-M

No if you want Vista to boot both, it has to be second install to drive, and in fact that is really the only way to do it. The best thing to do would be to install a second drive which would end this isuue. It sounds like Vista cannot overwrite the mbr for some reason and is there another hard drive in this system that maybe holds the mbr? Another small partition maybe?

Well you might be onto something. When i had it installed the first time it turned my data drive into a primary drive and then tried to boot it rather than my xp drive like it was suppose to.( i might have done it too with BDCedit when I was tying to get it to boot xp because it didn't sit it up automatically.) I have since turned my data drive into a logical drive again. But this time around I disconnected the drive before trying to install Vista to keep Vista from maybe messing with it just encase. I think there were boot files on my Data drive and I deleted them. Should I maybe reconnect the Data drive and try again or is there a files on the Data drive that needs deleting?

Thanks SO much...

[crjdriver]

While you should install xp first, it can be done by installing xp after vista.

Here is what I would do.

1 Zero fill the drive. This puts the drive back in the same condition as when it was new [excepting for physical wear]

2 Test the drive with WD's utility.

3 Test the ram with memtest.

4 Once you are sure the hardware is ok, then install xp. Once xp is installed and working correctly, install vista in a separate partition. You will now have the boot menu.