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Installing Vista again after uninstalling Vista to XP
I didnt want to fight this as my XP was quite old and I bought Vista Home Premium. Upgrade or Full version? The upgrade has to be started from within a working, activated XP installation. The full version is installed by booting the DVD. How can I install it. On booting up I get the old XP that doesnt let me get

Clean Install Upgrade home premium from xp media center - partion
Richard miller...@cox.net microsoft public windows vista general Do you have to have XP fully installed on your computer before to install upgrade Vista? Can you in install Vista on a blank Hard Drive and then when Vista asks for XP just put your XP CD in and then continue with Vista. That way you don't have to

For those poor souls who have lost their COA---
Don't "upgrade". It seems to me that Vista is just XP with a new skin. `---- http://www.ifc0nfig.com/blog/windows-vista-my-experience/ Not a fair review at all. First the guy (an acknowledged Linux biased user) start off installing Vista on a very sub-par machine. Almost all of the problems he faces are getting

Installed VISTA now need to go back to XP Media Center Edition
Do you have to have XP fully installed on your computer before to install upgrade Vista? Can you in install Vista on a blank Hard Drive and then when Vista asks for XP just put your XP CD in and then continue with Vista. That way you don't have to over lay Vista with XP which is just more garbage on your computer.

Can I do a clean install using the Retail Upgrade DVD
My guess is that the previous OS has to be on the same HDD as Vista is being installed to. Anyone know for sure? I can install Win 2k on the HDD that I'm installing Vista onto. "alexh1000" wrote: Here is the text from the doc that seems to indicate you can do a clean install using an upgrade license.

Trouble installing vista upgrade
Microsoft will not close a loophole that offers consumers a cheaper way to upgrade to Windows Vista. As vnunet.com reported last week, users can install the upgrade version of the new operating system as a fresh installation, even if they do not currently own a licensed copy of Windows XP.

Installing Vista Upgrade needing SATA RAID drivers
While looking to buy a version of vista i noticed that the Upgrade requires a clean install when you upgrade from Windows XP Pro SP2, which happens to be what i have. You can use an upgrade version of Vista Home Premium to install Vista with XP Pro as the qualifying OS, however, it can only do a custom install

Roll back to XP
I have Vista upgrade. I think you can just take the upgrade and install it and when it ask where is your XP you just stick your disk in there and it say Oh For the first install you do not put in a key then on the second install you enter the key. Do a search on Google for "clean install vista upgrade dvd" for

Dell Vista upgrade won't Activate says key is already in use ...
Just Me n...@isp.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I just did a fresh install of my Win Xp Pro and then tried to install my Vista Business Upgrade and when I enter the key number I get a error message saying I have to install from my previous version of windows ??????? BTW I did activate XP pro

Installing Vista Home Premium and Format
"DazL" wrote: Hi, i just bought vista upgrade and i have tried several times to upgrade my Windows XP SP2 to Vista but it hangs at the final stage every time. website as that originally flagged as an issue from the upgrade advisor, but that doesn't make a difference. interestingly when i start to install Vista

Installing Vista Upgrade needing SATA RAID drivers
1) Upgrade installations that MSFT has provisioned for are acceptable. But what you did "over XP" is often a recipe for trouble and mangled files and is often called in slang a "dirty install." Don't do that again. This is what you did on one partition or drive installing Vista Beta 2 over XP.

vista ultimate x64 install
Even some Microsoft developers - who have the Vista team on premise - can't manage to upgrade to Vista. http://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell/archive/2007/06/21/installing-vista... LOL...no surprise to me. I have been shopping for a couple of new computers...and factoring in the additional cost of buying XP to load

Dual Boot XP Home & Vista Home Premium Upgrade
Vista boot will be installed on the primary disk. Vista would not boot if the drives were switched. Another point, if the old drive is disconnected, then neither of the XP installations will be touched by the Vista install. If John had an upgrade version of Vista, he would not lose one of the XP installations.

vista ultimate x64 install
"Phoenix_124" wrote: Hi, I have recently upgraded to Vista using an HP express upgrade disc and find it not as satisifing (yet) as I expected. So I want to revert back to XP using my So I was just wondering if when you install Vista again after unistalling Vista before to XP, will that product key (Vista) work?

installing vista over oem xp
I know installing Vista will slow my PC down but I am planning to build a new PC at the end of this year or start of next so if the worst comes to the worst I'll just stick with XP until then but I'd like to be familiar with Vista before I upgrade. Another option would be to dual boot, how do I set this up on the

Vista Dual Boot Installation Procedure
"Richard" wrote: Do you have to have XP fully installed on your computer before to install upgrade Vista? Can you in install Vista on a blank Hard Drive and then when Vista asks for XP just put your XP CD in and then continue with Vista. That way you don't have to over lay Vista with XP which is just more garbage

My Vista is very slow
Mark M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Hi Shock System, if you contact Toshiba and request XP drivers for your model you will probabley find that they are more than willing to assist you. Installing from a full XP Pro disk rather than an upgrade disk might install

Windows Easy Transfer 32bit XP to 64 bit Vista
Bruce Coryell bcory...@chesco.com alt windows-xp Pat Glenn wrote: If you're bothered by the rules for XP, you are going to just love Vista. Yeah, I've heard. Apparently the first version of the release wouldn't even allow you to re-install if you made an error. That's all right though, I'ma little tired of paying

Installing Vista on top of Vista - and then getting an ...
The visual stuff is easy to like. The other stuff like the UAC, not so easy to love. Also,note you'll be getting a upgrade to XP , which means you'll be installing over your current XP. I hate that myself, as that always seems to bring in problems. I prefer installing Vista from scratch to keep everything clean.

Installing upgrade
Due to a hard drive failure I'm having to reinstall Vista. I have a valid copy of XP, however that is failing to install (I have left a query on the XP newsgroup relating to that.) Previous Upgrade versions of windows allowed you to insert a CD from a previous version to prove to the install that you could