Vista Upgrade - Upgrades, then BSOD's on restart

Specs

- Dell E1705
- 2.0 GHz Core Duo (32-bit)
- 1 GB
- GeForce Go 7800
- Single 80 GB HD 7200rpm

Performing an upgrade from Media Center Edition 2005 to Vista Home Premium. I did this using Daemon Tools since all I had was an ISO (downloaded from school's MSDN site). I don't have any DVD's to burn this onto, so I had to do it like this.

Did an in-place upgrade since I cannot clean install at this point in time. (both because of the lack of a DVD and the fact that I don't want to kill everything right now)

I uninstalled the video drivers before upgrading. It went through all steps fine, albeit slowly. After reaching 60% in the Completing Upgrade step, it restarted and would BSOD upon showing the Vista boot screen. The BSOD would flash so quickly that I wouldn't be able to tell what it said.

When I tried booting in Safe Mode, it would die at the same place each time on "crcdisk.sys." Right at the point where the green bar scrolls across (but it never shows). It suffices to say that no other modes worked besides the rollback, the only good part of this whole process.

I've already attempted this upgrade twice. And got the same results both times. What I'm experiencing is similar to what this guy is experiencing, http://www.tutorials-ne.com/vistasetup/Dell-BSOD/

Compatibility profile said that nothing was critical but that programs like VS 2003/2005, some digital camera stuff, Intel Wireless and Sigmatel Sound would break. It also mentioned something about the SATA controller not working.

Any ideas?



Edit: When I was getting the BSOD's, I tried disabling stuff in BIOS, but what I could disable was pretty limited (couldn't disable sound or IDE).

 

Sorry about your BSODs.

Make sure you are using Vista compatible drivers only. WinXP stuff will crash and BSOD Vista.

Also, do a clean install.

 

As I said, a clean install is out of the question at this point. I'll try unintstalling more of the drivers I suppose...

One point to add on is that it dies as "crcdisk.sys." A Google search only yields problems with 64-bit computers, which is not the case here.

Maybe this? http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/workaround-upgrading-vista-t15757.html

 

I wonder if the problem is that you are not running this from a physical disc. If Vista needs to go back to the disc later in the install, it might not be able to find it because Daemon Tools is no longer running.

Do you know anyone that has installed Vista like you are describing?

 

From what I can tell, it doesn't need the CD after the first reboot because it extracts all of the files (plus, how does Daemon Tools run before the OS runs?). It looks like that sptd.sys though is the root of the cause. What I've done is that I've extracted the entire disc's contents to my computer and uninstalled Daemon Tools. *crosses fingers*

 

That was my point. I understand it extracts all the files, I'm was just saying that if it needed to go back to the disc for anything, it wouldn't be able to because Daemon Tools is not running.

It sounds like that is not the problem though and that you are narrowing it down to the true root cause. Good luck and I hope it works out. When you get it all installed, please post here and let everyone know what the issue was and how you resolved it. This could be very valuable for other people in the future.

 

Installed just fine once I removed Daemon Tools (and sptd.sys from Windows/system32/Drivers/)

I'm a little irked at a comparatively slow startup time (30 seconds for XP -> 90 seconds for Vista), but everything else checks fine. Not a single BSOD so far.

 

Just a little note: Vista was booting slowly for me too the first 5-10 times I loaded it (since it was doing patches, windows updates, driver installs, etc) but now its a lot faster (~20-30 seconds from power on to load).
Also, I had BSODs but I figured it was because I didn't do clean removals of old drivers when I updated. So I cleaned out the drivers and reinstalled the newest ones and the BSODs were gone. =)

 

Same thing happening here. The startups are getting gradually better. It's about 60 seconds now. Not great, but acceptable. Got a few issues I'll post up in a new thread.

 

I upgraded a Dell desktop and it wouldn't even boot into Vista.
The system was only 2 months old too.

Had the option to rollback to XP and I had to do a clean install.

What my system would do is when the scrolling bar would pop up as it was loading into windows it would reboot and get back to that same spot..

 

NEVER... i mean NEVER do an upgrade...

ALWAYS A CLEAN INSTALL...

it's like changing a tshirt without taking a shower... the shirt might be clean BUT you're still dirty