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Guest
Tried and tried to get Vista to install with no success. So, I went to
Toshiba's site to update the BIOS for my M200. I tried to update the BIOS and
I get an error telling me I'm not an administrator (funny, I was logged in as
admin). Later, find this way to update my MBR (kind of like the old FDISK/MBR
for XP) by going to My Computer | Manage | Storage | Disk Management and
selecting an active partition... but when I go there, it tells me it cannot
connect to the service. I google for that error (figuring it is the same
problem causing all 3 issues) and find this command:
1. Run: gpupdate /force /boot
2. Reboot
3. Have fun installing Vista
Too bad MS couldn't answer this question and save everyone months of
frustration. My guess is that when I installed RC1 of vista, it made some
changes to the policy on the machine which overwrote the XP Administrator
policies with the Vista administrator SID. Uninstalling Vista RC1 using the
bootsect tool obviously would not reset computer policies, so that was just
left messed up for the RTM install.
Note to Microsoft: upgrade your install to run gpupdate /force /boot at
install (or provide the option) if the user is logged in as an administrator
but they are getting this message.
Toshiba's site to update the BIOS for my M200. I tried to update the BIOS and
I get an error telling me I'm not an administrator (funny, I was logged in as
admin). Later, find this way to update my MBR (kind of like the old FDISK/MBR
for XP) by going to My Computer | Manage | Storage | Disk Management and
selecting an active partition... but when I go there, it tells me it cannot
connect to the service. I google for that error (figuring it is the same
problem causing all 3 issues) and find this command:
1. Run: gpupdate /force /boot
2. Reboot
3. Have fun installing Vista
Too bad MS couldn't answer this question and save everyone months of
frustration. My guess is that when I installed RC1 of vista, it made some
changes to the policy on the machine which overwrote the XP Administrator
policies with the Vista administrator SID. Uninstalling Vista RC1 using the
bootsect tool obviously would not reset computer policies, so that was just
left messed up for the RTM install.
Note to Microsoft: upgrade your install to run gpupdate /force /boot at
install (or provide the option) if the user is logged in as an administrator
but they are getting this message.