Premium 64 to Ultimate 64 ??

[Cancun]

Just wondering if it's possible to UPGRADE from Vista Premium 64 edition to
Ultimate 64 without doing a clean install.

I've tried 3 times and it never finishes the "completing Install" stage.

Thanks.

Also, can you transfer a registered vista program from one computer to
another.

Cheers!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Did you run the Vista Upgrade Advisor?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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Just wondering if it's possible to UPGRADE from Vista Premium 64 edition to
Ultimate 64 without doing a clean install.

I've tried 3 times and it never finishes the "completing Install" stage.

Thanks.

Also, can you transfer a registered vista program from one computer to
another.

Cheers!

 

[Cancun]

The Upgrade Advisor is not compatible with 64bit But I'm pretty sure my
PC is compatible as it's a HP 9160f--loaded!! 4G of ram, etc..., it came with
Vista Prem 64bit on it.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Installation choices for 64-bit consumer versions of Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932795/en-us

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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:

Just wondering if it's possible to UPGRADE from Vista Premium 64 edition to
Ultimate 64 without doing a clean install.

I've tried 3 times and it never finishes the "completing Install" stage.

Thanks.

Also, can you transfer a registered vista program from one computer to
another.

Cheers!

 

[Kerry Brown]

Just wondering if it's possible to UPGRADE from Vista Premium 64 edition
to
Ultimate 64 without doing a clean install.

I've tried 3 times and it never finishes the "completing Install" stage.

Thanks.

Also, can you transfer a registered vista program from one computer to
another.

Cheers!

The upgrade should work as it's 64 bit to 64 bit. You cannot upgrade from 32
bit to 64 bit or vice versa. I have seen some Vista Home Premium to Vista
Ultimate upgrades fail on computers with an OEM version of Vista. In most
cases the problem was the AV/Firewall/Anti-spyware program that came with
the computer. It may need to be uninstalled before the upgrade will work.
The AV program would not allow some needed registry changes. Note that most
OEM computers do not come with disks to reinstall the AV. If you uninstall
the AV you may not have the means to reinstall it.

In other cases the problem was a incompatible OEM boot sector. The boot
sector was non-standard to support their factory restore procedure.
Overwriting the boot sector with a standard Vista boot sector allowed the
upgrade but it broke the factory restore procedure. Before you do this you
need to make sure you have created an alternate method to restore the
computer to it's factory setup if need be. You will also need a Vista DVD to
boot from. You use the bootrec /fixboot and bootrec /fixmbr commands. Se the
following link for details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Note that this may disable the OEM factory restore procedure so proceed
carefully only after you have a way to restore the computer to the factory
setup. You may want to sell the computer some day in which case you would
need to restore the factory setup.

 

[Cancun]

The upgrade should work as it's 64 bit to 64 bit. You cannot upgrade from 32
bit to 64 bit or vice versa. I have seen some Vista Home Premium to Vista
Ultimate upgrades fail on computers with an OEM version of Vista. In most
cases the problem was the AV/Firewall/Anti-spyware program that came with
the computer. It may need to be uninstalled before the upgrade will work.
The AV program would not allow some needed registry changes. Note that most
OEM computers do not come with disks to reinstall the AV. If you uninstall
the AV you may not have the means to reinstall it.

In other cases the problem was a incompatible OEM boot sector. The boot
sector was non-standard to support their factory restore procedure.
Overwriting the boot sector with a standard Vista boot sector allowed the
upgrade but it broke the factory restore procedure. Before you do this you
need to make sure you have created an alternate method to restore the
computer to it's factory setup if need be. You will also need a Vista DVD to
boot from. You use the bootrec /fixboot and bootrec /fixmbr commands. Se the
following link for details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Note that this may disable the OEM factory restore procedure so proceed
carefully only after you have a way to restore the computer to the factory
setup. You may want to sell the computer some day in which case you would
need to restore the factory setup.

Well, it's definitely not my AV as I don't use the factory but eiter way, I
completely uninstalled it (with Revo Uninstaller) before I tried the upgrade
and still didn't take. It gets to the completing install stage the after a
bit reboots and resorts to the previous saying that one or more problems
occurred.
That method with the boot set up sounds very tricky and not sure if I want
to attempt it especially if you're not 100% sure that was the problem,
THanks anyway, still waiting to hear back from Microsoft.....whenever
that'll be.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Well, it's definitely not my AV as I don't use the factory but eiter way,
I
completely uninstalled it (with Revo Uninstaller) before I tried the
upgrade
and still didn't take. It gets to the completing install stage the after a
bit reboots and resorts to the previous saying that one or more problems
occurred.
That method with the boot set up sounds very tricky and not sure if I want
to attempt it especially if you're not 100% sure that was the problem,
THanks anyway, still waiting to hear back from Microsoft.....whenever
that'll be.

Try looking in the setuperr.log to see what may have caused the aborted
upgrade.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927521

 

[Cancun]

Try looking in the setuperr.log to see what may have caused the aborted
upgrade.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927521

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/


Tried, it's blank. Guess during the roll-back it delete it.

 

[Kerry Brown]

It wasn't blank when I had similar problems. Perhaps the fact that it is
blank may be a hint as to what the problem is. I don't know what would cause
this but hopefully someone else will.