No Xp Pro to Vista Home Premium Upgrade

ben_j_davis · 16 Jan 2007 at 10:05

I was just reading that it is not possible to upgrade XP Pro to Vista Home Premium without a clean installation. This is really annoying as my copy of XP Pro is from MSDN I'm not sure the Vista DVD will like my Windows disk that I burnt myself.

turbotoes · 16 Jan 2007 at 10:38

No upgrade of vista will accept a shiny disk as proof of compliance. You must have a validated copy of xp or win 2000 installed on the pc. Clean install now means an overwritten ( if you like) install, not a spanky clean reformat like we all do now. This comes from the horses mouth over at vista newsgroups.
Personnaly I think MS have finally flipped with this as an upgrade policy, and I think it will push more people into buying oem (and trying fiddle the license when they upgrade) or not "buying" their copy of vista if you see what I mean.
I build about 14 systems a year for other people (as well as maintain for a client base of about 50 others, combined with my "proper" job) and always try to persuade them to buy a genuine copy of the os, and retail at that ( so that they have a copy of the os that will last, not become invalid if they upgrade or have a major hardware faliure!) but I think I will have to rethink that now, as the extra time involved for a double install or the extra cost of a full copy, just isn't worth the hassle.

turbotoes

ben_j_davis · 16 Jan 2007 at 10:59

I've got a validated XP Pro installation on my computer, the main thing i'm worrying about is will the Vista Upgrade version accept my CD which i created from an MSDN iso?

turbotoes · 16 Jan 2007 at 11:18

Your cd is irrrelevant, your Vista upgrade will never ask you for it. You just need a validated install of a qualifing product on the machine. So as long as you can keep installing and validating xp, you can keep re installing Vista.

turbotoes

ben_j_davis · 16 Jan 2007 at 11:27

Sorry I didn't read the post carefully enough. I think we should switch to your thread now.

fumbles · 16 Jan 2007 at 23:52

invicta59 · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:06

I cant find reference to the install prodedures at all. Do you have a link to the installation process you refer to?

I'm finding this a strange situation - I already have an activated XP on one PC, but have just assembled a new one on which I was planning to run Vista, while the old one ends up in the component pile. Not sure that it will let me activate it on the new PC in order to do the upgrade now, in which case that'll be a total waste of £230 on an Ultimate upgrade... :rolleyes:

invicta59 · 17 Jan 2007 at 16:25

Found it!

What an odd set of circumstances. As mine is a Upgrade version of XP Pro, it appears that I am doomed forever to have to keep a copy of Win98 handy in order to install XP, in order to install Vista. What a palaver! I have ordered the Ultimate upgrade version, but an additional £120 for a bootable CD/DVD is a bit beyond my poor xmas battered pockets.

I did read though that only the 32 bit version requires that procedure, and the 64 bit version has a bootable option.

camelopardis · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:45

What about upgrades from Windows 2000. W2K never had validation in the same way that XP had.

turbotoes · 18 Jan 2007 at 07:58

invicta59 said:
Found it!

What an odd set of circumstances. As mine is a Upgrade version of XP Pro, it appears that I am doomed forever to have to keep a copy of Win98 handy in order to install XP, in order to install Vista. What a palaver! I have ordered the Ultimate upgrade version, but an additional £120 for a bootable CD/DVD is a bit beyond my poor xmas battered pockets.

I did read though that only the 32 bit version requires that procedure, and the 64 bit version has a bootable option.

You are quite right about the 64 bit version, it is bootable in all flavors.
Mind you I 'd wait to see what the driver support is going to be like for it before taking the plunge. ( my personal opinion only)

turbotoes · 18 Jan 2007 at 07:58

camelopardis said:
What about upgrades from Windows 2000. W2K never had validation in the same way that XP had.

still has to be fully installed and sp'd (sorry, service packed)

invicta59 · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:26

turbotoes said:
You are quite right about the 64 bit version, it is bootable in all flavors.
Mind you I 'd wait to see what the driver support is going to be like for it before taking the plunge. ( my personal opinion only)

64 bit it will be then

. I am surprised that some manufacturers (logitech for example) dont seem to have any 64 bit drivers available. You would think that Vista has come as an out of the blue announcement, not one with a 3 year advance announcement