I have had to reinstall my operating system on my Dell. It came with XP Media Center 2005 and an upgrade disc to Vista Home Premium. I have installed this before with no problems. Now I have tried several times and no matter what I do when it comes time for SP1 to install (No, I do not have a firewall or other program interferring) my system goes through download, install and then the three phases of applying the changes. When it gets to 100% of phase 3 it says it failed and then when it reboots I am told there is a file missing and I have to repair windows or even do a restore point to get running again. HELP...

Where is the upgrade downloading from? Dell? Is there any chance you can get a disc, from Dell, to upgrade with?

The upgrade is on a disc from Dell.

Sorry I missed this thread for so long...

To quote Bugsy:



Try repairing your system files and then running the SP1 installer again.

Also make sure you disable you AV software as sometimes it can interfere when istalling Service packs.

And make sure you have enough disk space left too

Edit

Why don't you install SP1 & 2 from the windows updater as this way is recommended anyway?

You say you have installed this before but to be honest your just going to be creating a lot of corrupt system files by going back and forth with the upgrading, when doing an upgrade it will always leave redundant files on your computer no matter what people tell, it just does and they are very hard to find and fix... the best way is a clean install of any OS this way they will be no possible damaged system or program files that may be lurking.

Try running a small program called Ccleaner to clean up you computer, then try again.