Comments on: Windows Vista in-place upgrade/repair, on a non booting system.

By: mauricio giraldo

mauricio giraldo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:43:22 +0000

LOL Windows Me!

I had not thought about that until now and you are so right!

I DO have Vista though… came with my laptop… and now I am trying to get the darn SP2 to install… how’s this for stupidity: Windows needs a lot of stuff to be disabled so it can upgrade (isn’t it supposed to be… like… you know… the OS?).

Fortunately I can do the in-place upgrade… gonna try that and see if SP2 installs but geeeeeeez.

By: JoeyH

JoeyH — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:33:50 +0000

I am SO frustrated with Vista too – this is ridiculous. At least XP would allow an in-place upgrade booting with the XP oem CD and installing again leaving all or most user settings intact. Vista would not work correctly – tried all the usual options, booting to safe mode, system restore points, etc. Scanned for viruses and none – Customer was on a website making a purchase at a respected electronics site and it just locked up – after 20 minutes of no response customer shut off the pc. I’m a computer tech and I could not get Vista repaired. Had an error slui.exe failed to initialize. I couldn’t get past the logon screen after typing the user password. Then it just booted me out to the windows logon screen again. This is MADNESS that Vista will not fix it’s problems with a startup repair or a system restore, also did a full chkdsk and no disk problems. I did another install using the same boot drive and all and Vista backed up the old windows folder and program files, user folders and renamed it windows.old. Yes, that is fine BUT now all the purchased DRM crap is no longer good- the licenses for all the purchased music are invalid and Vista screwed another customer. And of course, media player 11 no longer lets you backup your music licenses! Then they wonder why people would do p2p downloading! Crazy – and I was starting to get more faith in Vista up until this past week. Slui.exe I believe has to do with windows validation crap.

By: Carl Farrington

Carl Farrington — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:36:36 +0000

Hi Joey. Unfortunately you have to start the in-place upgrade from within Windows, so the system needs to be working for this to work.

You can’t boot the computer from the DVD and do a repair install.

By: JoeyH

JoeyH — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:43:01 +0000

Apparently you CAN still do a repair install (UPGRADE) installation from the Vista DVD – here is a page telling how and why it is disabled sometimes. http://vistasupport.mvps.org/repair_a_vista_installation_using_the_upgrade_option_of_the_vista_dvd.htm

By: Carl Farrington

Carl Farrington — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:33:25 +0000

if you’re having the stop c0000021, see my next blog post, it might help:
http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/vista-stop-c000021a-fatal-system-error-the-initial-session-process-or-system-process-terminated-unexpectedly.html

By: VISTA = WINDOWS ME

VISTA = WINDOWS ME — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:25:17 +0000

I’m having the same problem.

So I’m having to reinstall vista,(BIG SURPRISE) because a windows update hammered my system.

Last known working config doesn’t work,
system restore doesn’t work.

So I’m trying to do a “in-place upgrade.”

If you boot from the DVD it wants to do a clean install.
It says “upgrade has been disabled. Run from windows if you want to upgrade”
The whole point of doing a “in-place upgrade” is because (imagine that) WINDOWS WON’T BOOT.

So I can only barely get the system up in safemode, so I boot into safe mode and try to run it again.
It says “Upgrade can’t be ran from safe mode”

So my question is, what were the Microsoft programmers smoking the day they were writing this recovery tool. (“oh, vista’s gonna’ be so stable, nobody will ever have to do a recovery, just like linux.” ) NOT

I really think that Vista is really a build on windows ME. And we all know where that ended up.

Why doesn’t Microsoft just can this Vista crap and go back to XP and finish its security.