Vista upgrade

The Astroman · 03-09-2007, 07:31 AM

Hey guys.
If I buy a Vista Home Premium laptop and then buy the OEM version of Vista Ultimate, can I just update from Home Premium to Ultimate, conserving files, settings etc.?

Or do I have to format the drive and then install the OEM.

Buy-it PC · 03-09-2007, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by The Astroman

Hey guys.
If I buy a Vista Home Premium laptop and then buy the OEM version of Vista Ultimate, can I just update from Home Premium to Ultimate, conserving files, settings etc.?

Or do I have to format the drive and then install the OEM.

You know, being that VISTA has been out for nearly a month now... this is a good question to ask Microsoft's community board. But, what I do know about VISTA... when I installed the BETA 2 version of it, I had XP on my machine. It basically upgraded it. Took all the data files and stored it in a separate folder... which took me a while to find, by the way.

So, chances are it'll just upgrade to Ultimate.

But a question, why do you want to use Ultimate... Home Premium is just fine for a laptop?

PC eye · 03-09-2007, 08:15 AM

What Vista does with a Windows version it upgrades over is to rename the previous Winodws directory to "Windows.old". This so you can copy anything you want out of it before sending it on it's way to the recycle bin. It will probably ignore the Premium installation that way like the XP installation it upgraded was tossed aside. Like XP did with XP it will probably delete everything in favor of the new installation.

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PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,279	What Vista does with a Windows version it upgrades over is to rename the previous Winodws directory to "Windows.old". This so you can copy anything you want out of it before sending it on it's way to the recycle bin. It will probably ignore the Premium installation that way like the XP installation it upgraded was tossed aside. Like XP did with XP it will probably delete everything in favor of the new installation.