VISTA RTM: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration." - And BCDEDIT For Dummies
Vista RTM is out for MSDN subscribers, so I figured it would be as good a time as any this morning to install it on my second drive (the one where I had an x64 version of Windows XP that I hardly ever use.) So I booted off the DVD and asked Vista to install itself "new" (not an upgrade) on this drive. I've already had some experience with this in the betas and I figured it would be cleared up by RTM, but no joy. About 85% through the expanding files phase you get a dialog that says "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration." and that's the end of that. Now there have been a number of so-called "Fixes" for this that involve a missing registry key, that go something like the following: "This bug happens when partition manager is missing as upper filter for disk. The following steps will fix this: 1. Open HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E 967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} using regedit. 2. Confirm that Upper...