Vista Basic to Vista Ultimate

Question

I recently purchased a t400 preconfigured with Vista Basic.  I already owned a legally purchased vista ultimate upgrade cd.  I stuck the vista DVD in my computer and chose the Upgrade option.
The process seemed to go smoothly up until the very end.  Specifically during the last step when it appeared to be done doing everything the screen turned off and nothing was displayed.  I left it in that state for several hours.  Ultimately i force rebooted the machine and windows vista ultimate rolled itself back.  After the rollback, the OS kept complaining that the S drive was almost full.  I checked it had only about 10 MB left.  Since then I restored the computer back to factory settings using the set of recovery disks I created when I first got the computer.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to succesfully upgrade?  My reasoning for wanting to do an upgrade vs a clean install is that Lenovo did not seem to ship installer software for the other software that came with the computer(e.g. intervideo windvd, roxio creator business edition, etc....).
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Although that thread was interesting, it didn't directly solve my problem.   I did find a solution though after a gut feeling and working with Lenovo Tech Support(I had to ask for a manager to get this information)
for anyone else reading this, my succesfull steps are as follows:
1) Restore Computer to factory settings(if applicable)
2) Do basic setup of computer
3) Rename s:\windows to s:\windows.old.  This steps ensures that the windows installer doesn't try to upgrade s:\windows instead of c:\windows
4) Reboot the computer into the bios.
5)  Select Config
6) Change the SATA option to compatibility(this was recommended to me by Lenovo Support.  I am not completely certain this part is needed though)
7) Change the display adapter to use only the integrated card.  I suspect this is what really solved the blank screen issue.
8) Boot into vista basic
9) insert update CD
10) Run Update
11) Go through the install process
12) Run thinkvantage software update
13) Run vista windows update
14) Make a backup to save yourself a headache in the future
Edited instructions to provide a bit of clarification.
I hope this helps someone else
Message Edited by claytonian on 12-08-2008 10:13 AM