Upgrading to Vista Ultimate

[njven]

I'm getting this error when trying to upgrade:

	  Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for these devices: 

		  o IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers: Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller

I downloaded the Vista chipset drivers?, but don't know what to do with them now. You can't install them since the installer returns a wrong windows version error. How do I get it to upgrade, my motherboard supports Windows Vista and even provided me with a Vista AND XP driver disc.

I had a dual boot XP, Vista for a while, but I didn't like having half my apps and settings on each install. I'm thinking about upgrading Windows XP Professional SP3 to Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. What kind of errors might I encounter, any problems, incompatibilities? Here is a basic list of apps and hardware:

2GB PC6400

ATI Raedon 1650Pro (HIS IceQ edition)

(Motherboard came with Vista drivers)

ASUS DVD-RAM

AMD Athlon 4200 x2

Adobe Apps (Reader/Photoshop)

AntiVir Personal Premium (Vista Supported Ver)

BitDefender 2009 Beta1 (Vista Supported)

Acronis True Image

Alcohol 52%

Daemon Tools/Daemon Script

Defraggler

DTools Shell Extensions

ImgBurn

MagicISO

PowerISO

xplorer2 lite

7zip

WinRAR

Irfan View

MS Office 2007

Auto Gordian Knot (AutoGK)

ButtonShop

CamStudio

CyberDVD

DVDDecrypter

DVDFlick

DVDShrink

TNT Screencapture

GIMP

Handbrake

Image Mender

ImageBadger

Livestation

MediaCoder

Sony Vegas

Stardock Objectdock

SUPER

Total Audio Converter

VLC

Ad-Aware 2007

PeerGuardian2 (has a beta vista version)

Spyware Blaster

SUPERAntiSpyware

Spysweeper

Zone Alarms Free Firewall

Notepad++

MultiSet (unattended windows installs)

Glary Utilities

GUiPeX

nLite

SandBoxie

Unlocker

vLite

VMware Player

Universal Extractor

DemoCreator (screencapture)

Will I be able to keep all my settings, reg tweaks, files, etc on an upgrade. Will it mess up some of the app settings? Will be system be fully, or almost fully usable directly after the upgrade?

Edited June 5, 2008 by njven

[EGOvoruhk]

You're probably going to need to just check your entire list for Vista compatability, although I doubt that any of them wouldn't work, unless they aren't being updated anymore. I wouldn't think anyone here has the exact same setup as you, and I don't think anyone is going to do the legwork and check each program's compatability for you

Might I ask why you want to upgrade, and not do a fresh install?

[njven]

I don't want to do a fresh install, because not only program registration issues, some are from Giveawayoftheday, but also because it takes me almost a month after every fresh install to get my system back to how I like all the settings.