Most software vendors time to time release new versions of their products. Among these releases, operating systems like Microsoft Windows are the most popular as they have a wide array of users across the world. The currently latest version of Microsoft operating system is Windows 7. Which is available in market.
The new versions come with some advanced features, improved functions, new look and feel. The users generally become eager to take benefit of these advanced features as quickly as possible. So, they opt for an operating system upgrade other than a fresh reinstall.
Due to the advanced features like good look & feel, better security and hardware support several computer users like to upgrade their existing Windows XP systems to Vista, Windows 7. In various versions to cover the user segments of Computer Science Professionals, Business & Enterprise Users, Gamers, different Home Users and End Users more.
When you upgrade your application such documentation and even screens suggest to backup data, though to avoid effort and time we often skip that. But in many case if the upgrade process completes successfully, it means that every data file is safe and will be there in the respective locations like ‘My Documents’ files will now be found under ‘Documents’. But, in some situation operating system issues like system files altered by programs, malicious software like virus, incompatible driver versions, highly fragmented hard drive partitions etc. the upgrade process may fail.
During the up-gradation we might encounter one or more of these errors:
* You can't choose hard drive partition for upgrade.
* You can't set the hard drive partition size.
* You come across a generic Windows Vista upgrade error message :
”Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation”
After such type of error, the upgrade process fails and the system becomes unstable or encounters a no boot situation.
You may encounter this behavior of Windows due to such causes:
* Vista is not compatible with mass storage driver.
* The hard drive is formatted as a dynamic disk.
* The file system of your Windows hard drive is damaged.
You are trying to install Vista on a hard drive partition which is formatted with FAT file system. FAT is incompatible with Vista..
Nothing to worry, what the cause of this problem is, the finally result would be incomplete upgrade operation. It would intrept the system inaccessible and we need to resolve it with Partition recovery software.
If the problem is due to the incompatible mass storage drivers, upgrade them. On the other hand if the problem is due to file system corruption or incompatibility of file system, you need to format your hard drive and perform clean installation of Windows Vista.
Though, it may resolve all the issues, but also has a drawback. Formatting wipes all the stored data from hard drive and you have to carry out partition recovery to overcome this problem.
A Partition Recovery tool is a powerful utility that recovers formatted data in very quickly. With no prior technical knowledge required, the software ensures recovery by even a novice user. Compatible with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems, the Partition Recovery utility supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems.
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