Installion of Home Premium edition

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

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.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Mate" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
> ________________
>
>
> Mate
>

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

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:33:30 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <>
wrote:

>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.
============

G.Watson

gfcwatson1-

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.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2


"George Watson" <gfcwatson1-> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:33:30 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <>
> wrote:
>
>>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.
> ============
>
> G.Watson
>
> gfcwatson1-

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.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"George Watson" <gfcwatson1-> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:33:30 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <>
> wrote:
>
>>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.
> ============
>
> G.Watson
>
> gfcwatson1-

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.


"Mate" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
> ________________
>
>
> 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.

"Mate" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
> ________________
>
>
> Mate
>

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

Mate


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:16:15 -0700, "Colin Barnhorst"
<> wrote:

>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" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> 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
>> ________________
>>
>>
>> Mate
>>
________________


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.

"Mate" <> wrote in message
news:...
> It is a single drive, 360 GB, portioned to c: 200 GB d: 160 GB
>
> 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







On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:45:47 -0700, "Colin Barnhorst"
<> wrote:

>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" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> It is a single drive, 360 GB, portioned to c: 200 GB d: 160 GB
>>
>> Mate
>>
>>
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Mate