No Boot Clean Installs Using Windows Vista Upgrade Discs
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversAlthough it has been discussed to death here, some official coverage on the front page is needed. Thanks to Ambiance for posting a direct response from Microsoft about the issue.
Unlike with the Windows XP Upgrade CD, with Windows Vista users are forced to have a valid install of Windows XP Home or Professional on their machines before upgrading with a Vista Upgrade DVD. This typically isn’t a big deal for the majority of users on the first install of Vista; but think about the necessary steps if you already have Vista installed or no operating system on the computer:
1. Install a genuine copy of Windows XP Home/Professional
2. Activate Windows XP through Microsoft
3. Upgrade to Windows Vista from within Windows XP
Either shell out the extra cash for the full version or be prepared for the extended process of installing XP, and then Vista. Of course there is always the OEM road, but remember that such a copy is limited to the computer it is first activated on.
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Comments(9)
what do you expect for $99.99us. xp upgrade was much more than that.
how about those cracked windows xp that passed wga, is it ready for upgrade?
my very first computer was a packard bell win 3.1 with a free upgrade coupon when windows 95 came out. the
cd that came was a win95 upgrade. every stinking time i had a major job installing win3.1, then upgrading.
what a nightmare it turned out to be. shame on microsoft. they don't really seem to encourage upgrading your
o/s with this approach.
i would say that for technical users it would be a hassle to reinstall xp then upgrade, but for normal users,
how often do you reinstall your os? twice a year?
it's stuff like this that turns more and more people to pirating software. they claim to want to decrease
piracy but then do everything they can to make legitimate use difficult. they must get some kind of tax break
if they can claim so many millions of dollars are lost from piracy.
this kind of stuff makes no
logical sense.
having an acivated installe dversion of xp before you can upgrade to vista is just ridiculus. to me with all
the so called intelligent people working at ms a lot better approach could have been implemented. why not just
put in your cd key for xp to install vista. what happens down the road when ms stops supporting xp or you
can't get it activated. the whole deal seems like a might mare. such ashame that any company as big as ms
could be so inept and treats its customers like criminals. i guess it's not practical but if everyone would
boycott there products they might get the idea.
microsoft is killing itselft by doing this.people will go pirated rather than buying xp or installing on
another partition.this is just stupid!!!!!!!!!!
p.s. almost everyone i know use a pirated copy of
xp.ms is kill it self!!!
according to this link from microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradepaths.mspx
one can
perform a clean install:
"installation options
you can upgrade in-place, which means
you can install windows vista and retain your applications, files, and settings as they were in your previous
edition of windows.
clean install
upgrading to windows vista with a clean install means
that you should use windows easy transfer to automatically copy all your files and settings to an extra hard
drive or other storage device, and then install windows vista. after the installation is complete, windows
easy transfer will reload your files and settings on your upgraded pc. you will then need to reinstall your
applications."
"you can install from the cd by booting to it. no need for an earlier
operating system. you can also
upgrade from within xp sp2 by starting the
install from within xp. there is no such thing as an upgrade
dvd for vista.
all versions are on the same dvd. it is just the product key you enter that
makes it
what you want. if you try to cheat and enter a different version
than the key you have without entering
the key you will be very unhappy once
the first month passes.
if you install from booting to
the dvd you will not be able to do an
upgrade, only a clean install.
you cannot upgrade from
windows 2000.
i highly reccommend that you run the vista upgrade advisor before beginning
the
installation to avoid unforeseen issues while installing due to hardware
issues or many other things that
can stop the install.
i am with ms tech support on vista."
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By sjc001 on 29.01.2007 - 01:01