Can't Upgrade From WINXP Pro

[Guest]

Hi can't upgrade from WINXP Pro to Vista Beta 2, tell me got to do clean
install. Any suggestions?

 

[CowboyBob]

I thought I read somewhere that the upgrade option has been disabled for the
current version of Vista, probably to discourage people from trying to use
it in a production situation. Check out my blog at
www.techfornonprofits.com for more on how I installed Vista on my production
machine but on a separate hard drive partition. Works like a champ. -- LK

 

[Michael D]

About 99% of the advice in the newsgroup is to "not" do an upgrade from XP,
but to install in a different patition or 2nd HD. "But" if you chose not to
follow their advice you can only do an upgrade from within XP, the option to
upgrade is not available if you are booting from the Vista DVD.

 

[Guest]

CowboyBob, thanks for the information, but did have an image of my hard drive
and was going to restore once I played around with it. But the other option
of installing to another partition might be ok. Got space on my hard drive
just wanted to avoid doing a dual boot and the hassles that brings when you
want to uninstall (master boot record etc.)

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The hassles of "uninstalling" Vista (there actually is no such thing as
uninstalling Vista) are less when Vista is on another partition or drive
than it is if you have overwritten your system drive.