Vista upgrade?

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times_champion

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I'm a bit confused about this Vista upgrade business; I bought a Dell PC a year ago with XP pre-loaded. I dont recall having an XP install disk anywhere. Does this mean I can buy the Vista home premium upgrade package or would I need to buy the standalone one? I dont really wnt to spend around £130 for the upgrade to find I cant install it...
 
Hi,

Your Dell PC proberly has a hidden partititon were the operating system is kept, check your documentation I think you press F8 during the BIOS screen and this brings up options to reinstall windows. (You lose anything not backed up)

The Vista upgrade is one of 2 things, first one if you bought a windows PC from around October 2006 Microsoft gave you the choice of upgrading when Vista was launched.
Second one is like you said is buy the upgrade version which you may need the original windows disk.

If you do want Vista your best bet is to buy the oem version, reformat and install.

Hope the above helps

Rob
 
Yes, it will become the state when you first ever bought the computer and switched on.

You will need to back up your data to a medium ( I try and do this weekly)

Rob
 
You can keep your documents and settings if you run the Vista migration Wizard from within XP.
 
As already said, it'll be best to backup your data to something (DVD/CD/Memory Stick etc) and it's often a good idea to do this on a regular basis but does of course depend on how much you value your data :p.
 
I'll probably get an external HDD then and back everything upto that and then transfer it all back accross. As I dont have a windows disk should I buy the complete (non-upgrade) Vista?
 
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