Spent 4 hours the other day, trying to upgrade my PC from XP to Vista! I already have a dual boot system & run XP 99% of the time, but as I have a dual core system, with 4Gb RAM (XP can only use 3 of it) and XP is reaching the end of its support cycle, I thought I’d jump into using Vista full time & keep my XP system as the backup instead. So, being good, I backed up my system and set the Vista upgrade going.

All seemed to be going well…..the upgrade path is supposed to leave all my programs & files intact, which is why it takes so long. In fact, I had to leave it going when I went out that evening! Unfortunately, when I came back there was a “read memory” error at 75% and I had to roll back the whole installation – AAAAGGGHHH!

So, I’m once again back on XP & debating whether to bother again. I ran a memory diagnostic which revealed no memory errors, but as I often get this error message when I shut down Internet Explorer, I’m wondering if it’s an error in XP rather than the Vista upgrade.

I really cannot cope with going through a clean installation followed by rew-installing all my software, so I’m back to the inbetween club for now…..if I feel brave, I may go for the Vista upgrade again – who knows, I may get it done just as Windows 7 comes out!!!!!