Perfectdisk Version 10 Stops Upgrade Of Vista 32
I went to upgrade my Dell XPS M1730 notebook from vista 32bit and when running the combatibility test it said that I needed to uninstall Norton 2009 and Perfect Disk 10 which I did. Restarted and tried the install again from within Vista and it still asked for Perfect disk to be uninstalled even thone driveugh it was not on the system any longer. I even went to regedit and made sure there were no registry items left behind and there were not.
So a suggestion in the final code is somehow to make sure that when Perfect disk is installed and uninstalled as suggested the upgrade can go ahead. I did a clean install of the 64bit project deleting the previous windows without issue and all went well and all drivers except for the Nvida 9700 GT mobile series were installed which is nice. Great job. Fast and resonsive for the most.
View Replies (Posted: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:39 PM)
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