Installion of Home Premium edition

[Mate]

My PC - an HP Pavilion t3355uk - came with XP Home edition installed,
for some obscure reason, I then upgraded to XP Pro, then loaded an
Evaluation copy ( 5600 ) of Vista Ultimate. All works well.

Come release of Vista, do I purchase the upgrade edition of Home
Premium, my choice at the moment-referring to Home Premium, not the
upgrade, or do I purchase the full edition, & do a clean new install ?


mate
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Mate
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[Rick Rogers]

Hi Mate,

To use Home Premium would require a clean install with a full version to a
formatted disk, or a clean install of XP Home and then an upgrade (note that
you cannot do a clean install with an upgrad disk without installing XP Home
first, the upgrade must be started from within an existing, qualifying OS).
The eval copy of Vista Ultimate could only possibly be upgraded to the full
release version of Ultimate, and that's not truely an upgrade, but rather an
overwrite with newer code. The prerelease Vista software does not qualify
for use of an upgrade disk.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[George Watson]

Earlier I purchased the Recovery Discs ( 2+1 ) for XP Home, will they
work thro' XP Pro & the Evaluation Vista ?

Cost wise ( UK ) the clean XP Home, with an Upgrade to Vista Premium
is the best financially - however, when making the transition from XP
Home to Pro had many problems recovering drivers etc.

Thank you, Rick, for your quick reply

Mate

Hi Mate,

To use Home Premium would require a clean install with a full version to a
formatted disk, or a clean install of XP Home and then an upgrade (note that
you cannot do a clean install with an upgrad disk without installing XP Home
first, the upgrade must be started from within an existing, qualifying OS).
The eval copy of Vista Ultimate could only possibly be upgraded to the full
release version of Ultimate, and that's not truely an upgrade, but rather an
overwrite with newer code. The prerelease Vista software does not qualify
for use of an upgrade disk.

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G.Watson

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[Kerry Brown]

Most HP recovery disks erase the hard drive during the recovery process.
Some have an option to perform a repair recovery rather than a full
recovery. It's very doubtful this will work as you have Pro on the computer
and the recovery disks are Home. You will have to buy the full retail
version of Vista Home Premium, erase the existing Vista Ultimate, and
install Vista Home Premium. This will leave your existing XP Pro
installation intact. If you want to use a Vista Home Premium upgrade disk
then you will have to use your HP XP Home recovery disks which will erase
everything on your hard drive then install the upgrade from within XP Home.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi George,

If you use the Recovery set to wipe out the system (as it's designed to) and
cleanly reinstall WinXP Home, then sure that will work for the upgrade.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[John Barnes]

You are eligible to install an upgrade version, but you will be required to
reinstall either version of your XP to install from. You can do an upgrade
from XP or a custom install.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Is this a one drive or two drive machine?

You cannot do an upgrade-in-place from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. You
can take advantage of upgrade pricing but due to the loss of some
functionality you cannot downgrade between home and business versions when
going from XP Pro to VHP (it would be like going from XP Pro to XP Home).
You will have to do a custom install.

You can use the upgrade functionality of VHP if you first restore to XP
Home.

You cannot perform an upgrade-in-place from Vista RC1 to VHP retail unless
you purchase a full edition of VHP. With a full edition you can take
advantage of the upgrade functionality. Vista RC1 is classed as evaluation
software and does not qualify for upgrade pricing.

 

[Mate]

It is a single drive, 360 GB, portioned to c: 200 GB d: 160 GB

Mate

Is this a one drive or two drive machine?

You cannot do an upgrade-in-place from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. You
can take advantage of upgrade pricing but due to the loss of some
functionality you cannot downgrade between home and business versions when
going from XP Pro to VHP (it would be like going from XP Pro to XP Home).
You will have to do a custom install.

You can use the upgrade functionality of VHP if you first restore to XP
Home.

You cannot perform an upgrade-in-place from Vista RC1 to VHP retail unless
you purchase a full edition of VHP. With a full edition you can take
advantage of the upgrade functionality. Vista RC1 is classed as evaluation
software and does not qualify for upgrade pricing.

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Mate
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[Colin Barnhorst]

If you are installing to the second partition you need a full edition.
However, I do not recommend dual booting XP and Vista on a production or
primary home computer. Please search the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general and this ng on "volsnap.sys" for
details. It has been discussed ad nauseum.

 

[Mate]

Many thanks, to All.

NB the spell checker was to blame for 'portioned', I had I loused up
'partitioned' & knew it, then accepted, the first offering

Mate

If you are installing to the second partition you need a full edition.
However, I do not recommend dual booting XP and Vista on a production or
primary home computer. Please search the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general and this ng on "volsnap.sys" for
details. It has been discussed ad nauseum.

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Mate
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[Guest]

My PC - an HP Pavilion t3355uk - came with XP Home edition installed,
for some obscure reason, I then upgraded to XP Pro, then loaded an
Evaluation copy ( 5600 ) of Vista Ultimate. All works well.

Come release of Vista, do I purchase the upgrade edition of Home
Premium, my choice at the moment-referring to Home Premium, not the
upgrade, or do I purchase the full edition, & do a clean new install ?


mate
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Mate
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I have recently learned, much to my chagrin, that XP Pro cannot be upgraded
to Home Premium which means you must do a clean install. If you hope to keep
your existing XP settings you're out of luck. Interestingly Pro will upgrade
to Business or Ultimate and XP Home can upgrade to anything supposedly
allowing you to keep your settings. I am mighty choked since I had to open
the Premium box to learn this.

 

[John Barnes]

Use Windows Easy Transfer to move your settings and files. You will have to
reinstall you programs. Considering the problems many are having with in
place upgrades, consider yourself lucky.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I have recently learned, much to my chagrin, that XP Pro cannot be
upgraded
to Home Premium which means you must do a clean install. If you hope to
keep
your existing XP settings you're out of luck. Interestingly Pro will
upgrade
to Business or Ultimate and XP Home can upgrade to anything supposedly
allowing you to keep your settings. I am mighty choked since I had to
open
the Premium box to learn this.

It all depends on the license for XP Pro you own. If it was supplied by HP,
it is probably an OEM copy, so it could conceivably be used as the base for
an upgrade to Vista Ultimate, but not Vista Home Premium, since that is not
a valid upgrade path for Vista Home Premium.

Valid upgrade paths for Vista:
XP Home->Vista Home Basic
XP Home->Vista Home Premium.
XP Home-> Vista Business.
XP Home-> Vista Ultimate
XP Media Center Edition 2005->Vista Home Premium/Vista Ultimate

All other valid upgrade paths are:
Win2k/XP Pro->Vista Business/Vista Ultimate

Any other path would be a "downgrade", not an upgrade, and must be installed
"clean".