INSTALLING NEW HARD DRIVE

[Joe Fernandes]

I have purchased a new hard drive and I'm wondering can I do a clean install
of Vista Home Premium from my upgrade cd?
It is the same computer that I used the cd to upgrade from xp. I didn't do a
clean install then.

thank you,
Joe

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Why not "clone" the old hard drive to the new one? Most hard drives come
with software to do this and/or offer the software on the support Web site.
That would likely be much easier than reinstalling everything.

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[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Use Vista's 'upgrade' version to clean-install
http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/070201#story1

 

[Don]

I have purchased a new hard drive and I'm wondering can I do a clean
install of Vista Home Premium from my upgrade cd?...

You can do it quite legally, but only for 30 days for testing purposes,
by *not* entering your upgrade product key when asked for it -- just
skip that step and continue with the clean install. You then have 30
days to make it legal by activating, but that (as I understand it) will
then de-activate your XP product key.

 

[Guest]

Your new hdrive does not have anything on it to upgrade from . So no , you
have to buy the full version $239.00 to install it on a new harddrive , which
is what I did , but if you do it you`ll have 2 Vista HP on your pc , should
of left the XP drive alone and put in the new drive with Vista . Doesn`t make
much sense to have duplicate systems on 2 hard drives IMO .................
Brian

 

[Rock]

You can do it quite legally, but only for 30 days for testing purposes,
by *not* entering your upgrade product key when asked for it -- just
skip that step and continue with the clean install. You then have 30
days to make it legal by activating, but that (as I understand it) will
then de-activate your XP product key.

Some misinfo here Don. Yes an upgrade version can be installed without XP
being installed, using the double install method. Ronnie gave a link for
that. The XP product key is not deactivated per se. But by the Vista
license for the upgrade version, the copy of XP that is the basis for using
an upgrade version of Vista, and Vista itself cannot be installed at the
same time. There is nothing technically preventing it, except for the
license agreement and one's word in accepting it.

 

[Rock]

Your new hdrive does not have anything on it to upgrade from . So no , you
have to buy the full version $239.00 to install it on a new harddrive ,
which
is what I did , but if you do it you`ll have 2 Vista HP on your pc ,
should
of left the XP drive alone and put in the new drive with Vista . Doesn`t
make
much sense to have duplicate systems on 2 hard drives IMO
.................

This is not so. An upgrade version can be installed without XP being there
first, though by the license the OP still needs to own a qualifying product,
and only one of them can be installed at any one time. See the post by
Ronnie Vernon.

 

[Plato]

I have purchased a new hard drive and I'm wondering can I do a clean install
of Vista Home Premium from my upgrade cd?

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_upgrade_clean.asp

 

[Guest]

Thank you all I used the web site and got what I needed ..........Joe

 

[Guest]

I have purchased a new hard drive and I'm wondering can I do a clean install
of Vista Home Premium from my upgrade cd?
It is the same computer that I used the cd to upgrade from xp. I didn't do a
clean install then.

thank you,
Joe