Upgrade from Vista to 7 32-bit, 29160 trouble

[The JoJo]

Hi,

I'm trying to do an upgrade from Vista 32-bit to Win 7. I guess it's not a surprise, but the upgrade fails and tells me to install the latest drivers for the Adaptec 29160 card. It's got them (the Adaptec ones).

How can I go forwards with the upgrade? Anything to be done?
Downgrade of drivers? Anything?
The adaptec is in an Asus P7p55d mb, PCI slot, with a Seagate X15 as a boot drive with the OS.

Br,
JoJo

 

[ddrueding]

Afraid I can't help you, as there is no way I would attempt what you are doing. Any way to get your data off and do a clean install?

 

[Fushigi]

According to this Adaptec support entry, as of December 1 a driver is planned but not yet available.

 

[MaxBurn]

There is also the possibility that you are hanging up on some OTHER storage driver like the one I encountered. I started thinking it was the ICH9R but it was actually the ITE8211 messing me up:

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/12380-installer-ite8211-problems.html

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7626&highlight=ite8211

 

[The JoJo]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll bang my head agains the wall for a while more, and see if I can get this working. A clean install is inevitably on the horizon, but right now I don't have the time for it

I'll look into the other storage drivers, and see if they have an impact.

Just downgraded the adaptec driver, let's see if that helps...

 

[The JoJo]

Downgraded adaptec driver, then when doing the upgrade chose not to check for latest updates. Now the card isn't reported as critical and show stopping. Thumbs up...

 

[The JoJo]

Hi,

it did work with only those 2 modifications mentioned above AND after removing most of storage related stuff / drivers. Got it installed, did take quite a long time.
When I have more spare time I'll take the suggested route and do a clean install with the 64-bit version.

Thanks for the help!

Have a Happy New Year!

Br,
JoJo

 

[Mercutio]

Nice to see you again, JoJo.

 

[LunarMist]

The question is whether he still looks like that.

 

[Howell]

My vista 64 to 7 64 upgrade went without a hitch on my Lenovo T61. It told me to uninstall several things including iTunes. I did except iTunes and it's working fine. It took 1.5 hours to install i guess but I didn't have to touch it once initiated. Note: my rand stop errors are back. I haven't had time check to see if that troublsome patch reinstalled.