SquareFeet
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Hi all,
Just registered here so I can share something I found out just now, and maybe help some people out if anyone's had/having the same problem.
I decided to reinstall Vista 32bit after making my old install cluttered, slow, and full of rubbish. I dual boot 32bit and 64bit editions of Vista using EasyBCD (love it, so useful). So I set about repartitioning my free space on my three HDDs, and got a setup I liked. Copied over the files I wanted to keep from my 32bit edition, booted into 64bit edition and started the install process. Which is when I got this error, right after it finished 'Extracting Files':
'Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot continue.'
So I googled the message and all I found was a load of threads about upgrading from XP. Not much use really.
The Fix (assuming you boot from the DVD):
After you get this message (hopefully you never will, it's frustrating), restart the installation, and choose 'Repair'. Select the drive/partition which you tried to install Vista on, and go ahead and repair it.
Next, restart the installation and finger's crossed it will have rewritten the MBR (so I understand, feel free to correct me) for that drive/partition, and it will let you continue.
Maybe I'm alone in finding this problem a real issue, but I spent a good few hours researching and reading around it, until eventually I thought it might be an EasyBCD problem (lucky it wasn't!) and ended up here and accidentaly solved it.
Hope this is useful for someone.
Just registered here so I can share something I found out just now, and maybe help some people out if anyone's had/having the same problem.
I decided to reinstall Vista 32bit after making my old install cluttered, slow, and full of rubbish. I dual boot 32bit and 64bit editions of Vista using EasyBCD (love it, so useful). So I set about repartitioning my free space on my three HDDs, and got a setup I liked. Copied over the files I wanted to keep from my 32bit edition, booted into 64bit edition and started the install process. Which is when I got this error, right after it finished 'Extracting Files':
'Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot continue.'
So I googled the message and all I found was a load of threads about upgrading from XP. Not much use really.
The Fix (assuming you boot from the DVD):
After you get this message (hopefully you never will, it's frustrating), restart the installation, and choose 'Repair'. Select the drive/partition which you tried to install Vista on, and go ahead and repair it.
Next, restart the installation and finger's crossed it will have rewritten the MBR (so I understand, feel free to correct me) for that drive/partition, and it will let you continue.
Maybe I'm alone in finding this problem a real issue, but I spent a good few hours researching and reading around it, until eventually I thought it might be an EasyBCD problem (lucky it wasn't!) and ended up here and accidentaly solved it.
Hope this is useful for someone.
