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i have a windows vista home premium solfware disk and have tried repeatedly to install vista on my computer, current os is windows xp sp3. the program runs does ok until it starts expanding files, when it gets about 27% a message pops up and says unable to modify boot ...


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Old 6th Jun 2009, 18:12
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Default Problems installing Vista - Install stops at 27%

i have a windows vista home premium solfware disk and have tried repeatedly to install vista on my computer, current os is windows xp sp3. the program runs does ok until it starts expanding files, when it gets about 27% a message pops up and says unable to modify boot files installation has stoped. any ideas on what to do?
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Old 7th Jun 2009, 04:47
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Default Problems installing Vista - Install stops at 27%

Could be the CD or your hard drive, is the CD new? or a burned CD?

Do a FULL format on your hard drive prior to install to make sure that is OK.
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Default Problems installing Vista - Install stops at 27%

Only use 1 stick of RAM during installation - preferably 1 stick of 1 GB.


This is known to cause the problem you describe frequently.
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