XP Pro won't upgrade to Vista Home Premium ?

Frankster wrote:

> Correct. You cannot "upgrade" from XP Pro to Vista Home (of any
> flavor). You need Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to do an actual
> "upgrade" to XP Pro.


That shouldn't be a surprise. Exactly the same thing is true of upgrading
From Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP. The only supported upgrade
path is to XP Professional, and not XP Home.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Jans" <Polimer.RemoveThis@poczta.pl> wrote in message
> news:eudhDwHSHHA.2228@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Is it true ?
>> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
>> Did I waste $200 ?
>>
>> Chuck

"Jans" <Polimer DeleteThis @poczta.pl> wrote

> Is it true ?
> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
> Did I waste $200 ?

Depends on what you mean by upgrade and waste. You can use the upgrade
version of VHP install Vista where XP Pro is installed as the qualifying OS,
however, it cannot do an in place upgrade of the XP OS - meaning it won't
migrate apps and data. It will do a custom install, where you will have to
install apps from the original media and migrate data. You can use Windows
Easy Transfer (WET) on the XP installation before doing the upgrade. This
will copy data and settings to an external USB drive or flash drive or
CD/DVD. Then after the Vista install, install the apps from original media
then use WET to bring in the data and settings. Personally I think this is
a better option than an in place upgrade, and you can still use the upgrade
version of VHP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/up...depaths

As other precautions I would use a drive imaging program to image the XP
installation and save that on an external USB drive. After Vista is
installed image that. Then if you have to reinstall Vista restore the
image, or if you want to go back to XP you have the XP image for backup.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

"Jans" <Polimer.TakeThisOut@poczta.pl> wrote

> Is it true ?
> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
> Did I waste $200 ?

Also there are Vista newsgroups were Vista questions are best posted, such
as microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

Jans wrote:

> Is it true ?
> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
> Did I waste $200 ?

It won't upgrade directly. According to information on Microsoft's
Windows Vista information site, upgrading from XP Pro to Vista Home
Premium requires a clean install.

http://tinyurl.com/2le7bp

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Kim André Akerø
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"Jans" <Polimer.DeleteThis@poczta.pl> wrote in news:eudhDwHSHHA.2228
@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

> Is it true ?
> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
> Did I waste $200 ?
>
> Chuck
>
>

If you absolutely don't want to do a clean install, then yes, you wasted
$200.

Kim André Akerø rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> Jans wrote:
>
>> Is it true ?
>> I never seen any info. regarding this possible problem.
>> Did I waste $200 ?
>
> It won't upgrade directly. According to information on Microsoft's
> Windows Vista information site, upgrading from XP Pro to Vista Home
> Premium requires a clean install.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2le7bp
>

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradepa
ths.mspx