lostsoul67

keeped all things releated to vista ultimate. haven't removed any components.

Worked on second try. Trimmed down image from 4.3Gb to 3.6Gb. Installed in WMware Workstation without problems. Now I just have to boot from another HDD and delete the vista installation while copying public/personal folders to a backup directory. I need to do like this as I don't have enough space on another disk or partition. What happens if I install this VistaLite copy over the existing one? Is it possible? Or do I get duplicate directories (Public and Public-ComputerName, Windows, Window.old for example)? *Note on the test installation on WMWare. When trying to install the available updates after SP1 the following happens: Stops at 3/3, 0 % done, reboot and continous loop. What is it with Vista and updates? Should I install the updates one by one chronologically? How do I manage to update without all these errors? Windows update is a joke!

I've had extreme problems to install sp1 in vista64 ultimate. Fresh installs and either standalone sp1 or through windows update fails at some point. I've experienced looping and numerous error messages. I thought that slipstreaming could be an alternative but i've ran into problems here too. The integration phase finish with an error message: Unable to... no changes made (or something like that). What gives? I hope it isn't because i don't have sp1 installed in my system (that is the issue i'm trying to solve). I have vista x64 retail swedish and sp1 x64 swedish.