3120: Cannot upgrade new XP VM to Vista

Jan 21, 2007, 09:36 AM #1
etrigan Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 3	3120: Cannot upgrade new XP VM to Vista I have a copy of Vista Business upgrade via the MS Action Pack. It does not allow you to install itself clean: you must upgrade an existing OS. In build 3120, I tried the following: Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a vista VM. Hangs at installing devices. Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a XP VM. Installs fine. Unfortunately, Vista won't upgrade it, saying that ACPI is not enabled. Changing the settings in the VM from XP to Vista doesn't enable the upgrade to proceed either. Any workarounds for this? I'd rate this one critical.. Alan.

Jan 21, 2007, 09:36 AM

etrigan
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3120: Cannot upgrade new XP VM to Vista

I have a copy of Vista Business upgrade via the MS Action Pack. It does not allow you to install itself clean: you *must* upgrade an existing OS.

In build 3120, I tried the following:

Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a vista VM. Hangs at installing devices.
Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a XP VM. Installs fine. Unfortunately, Vista won't upgrade it, saying that ACPI is not enabled. Changing the settings in the VM from XP to Vista doesn't enable the upgrade to proceed either.

Any workarounds for this? I'd rate this one critical..

Alan.

Jan 21, 2007, 09:48 AM

brokenbottle
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Quote:

Originally Posted by etrigan

I have a copy of Vista Business upgrade via the MS Action Pack. It does not allow you to install itself clean: you *must* upgrade an existing OS.

That's really unusual. Are you sure that you can't just show it your XP cd when it comes time to verify that you qualify for the upgrade?

Jan 21, 2007, 10:25 AM

etrigan
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Originally Posted by brokenbottle

That's really unusual. Are you sure that you can't just show it your XP cd when it comes time to verify that you qualify for the upgrade?

First thing I've tried. They've changed the behaviour in Vista.

Jan 21, 2007, 11:52 AM #4
Sirreal Junior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 17	Me too... upgrading from XP to Vista, via upgrade CD "This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). Windows must be installed onto a computer that supports ACIP....." Any ideas guys?

Jan 23, 2007, 06:31 AM #5
etrigan Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 3	bump - any thoughts?

Jan 23, 2007, 01:34 PM #6
jt_1017 Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 2	I ran into this same problem. I am getting the same error about the ACPI module when trying to upgrade XP Pro to VIsta.

Jan 30, 2007, 11:18 PM #7
seanhelmes Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 1	Same issue is occuring I have come across this same issue. I have tried over and over again to install Windows Vista Ultimate from a Windows Vista Upgrade DVD and this annoying message continually pops up. This is critical to fix and if someone from Parallels could address this issue it would be much appreciated.

Feb 8, 2007, 12:28 PM

bobby0512
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Same problem - Vista Upgrade fails

Quote:

Originally Posted by etrigan

Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a vista VM. Hangs at installing devices.
Clean install of XP w/ SP1 in a XP VM. Installs fine. Unfortunately, Vista won't upgrade it, saying that ACPI is not enabled. Changing the settings in the VM from XP to Vista doesn't enable the upgrade to proceed either.

In addition to what you have tried, I did a clean install of Winxp/sp2 in a XP VM then after the install changed to a Vista VM. It booted up fine but i still could not upgrade to Vista with the same problem.

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Feb 8, 2007, 01:33 PM #9
dentate Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 22	More basic than that--my XP Pro SP2 does not have a directory called ServicePackFiles.

Feb 8, 2007, 08:18 PM

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cstraughn
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Quote:

Originally Posted by dentate

More basic than that--my XP Pro SP2 does not have a directory called ServicePackFiles.

File attached, extract from ZIP (good for XP SP2). Backup first, some have had issues, others no problem - not sure what the catch is at this point. I've tried it on 4 different Macs with 4 totally different XP installs and it works each time, all systems running Vista after the upgrade without one glitch.

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Feb 8, 2007, 08:13 PM

#11

cstraughn
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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobby0512

Did you follow my instructions on page 2? PS - Backup first, some have had issues after step 6, others it has worked fine.

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