Vista Upgrade Technical Question

[Guest]

Ok, I have a bad install of my windows XP professional edition and it keeps
giving me the blue screen of death along with several errors. If I get an
upgrade CD or something along those lines will windows vista be using my
corrupt XP files and modifying/running them and if so will I still be getting
errors due to the problems I've had with my bad version of XP? I basically
want to know if I have to get a full version and completely start over from
scratch or can I get the upgrade and have the problems with my OS go away?
Thanks for the help.

 

[Rock]

Ok, I have a bad install of my windows XP professional edition and it
keeps
giving me the blue screen of death along with several errors. If I get an
upgrade CD or something along those lines will windows vista be using my
corrupt XP files and modifying/running them and if so will I still be
getting
errors due to the problems I've had with my bad version of XP? I basically
want to know if I have to get a full version and completely start over
from
scratch or can I get the upgrade and have the problems with my OS go away?
Thanks for the help.

If you do an upgrade from XP to Vista, it is supposed to be started from the
XP desktop. Since yours won't boot, that's out. In the case where the
upgrade is started from the desktop no parts of the XP OS are carried over,
Vista is laid down as an image. This is different from XP's which is a file
by file copy so there can be remnants.

There is a way to do a clean install using an upgrade version of Vista doing
a double install. Here is one link with info on how to do it.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932