Cannot Install Vista??

[Guest]

Hi all. I have just tried to install Vista Home Premium upgrade. I am
currently using Windows XP service pack 2. Before I purchased the upgrade I
used the upgrade advisor, which told me I could run Vista. So I went out and
parted with my money for this software. Initially during the installation I
had no problems. When it got to the 'completing upgrade' section, the screen
changed and informed me that Vista could not be installed on this system?? -
what? after I was told it could?
What a waste of over £100.00.
- Has anybody else had this problem?. Any comments or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.

- For your info I have a 512mb (vista compatable graphics card)
- 1gb of ram
- 50gb hard drive space remaining

 

[David B.]

Which version of XP, Home or Pro? You cannot upgrade XP Pro to any version
of Vista Home.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. The system came installed with Windows XP Home edition.
i did notice that when service pack two installed, the 'home' part was
removed from the start up screen (probably irrelevant).

 

[Guest]

You cannot do an upgrade of XP Pro to Vista Home, but you can do a Clean
Install of Vista Home with XP Pro installed (or not.) Just save your desired
data somewhere before you do this. Then follow the instructions within a
multitude of posts in this newsgroup.