Re: Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade Edition licensing and clean install questions.

Tom,

Allow me to jump in here to ask a question. You appear to have the best
answers from what I've been reading so far.....

I have WinXP Pro (32 bit verion) Volume license on one of my workstations
now and I would like to upgrade to Vista Ultimate x64 version 9retail). Can
I do it with the the Vista Ultimate Upgrade package (which has both 32 and
64 bit DVD's) or must I have a 64 bit version of WinXP installed?

I think the answer is that I can't and must buy the full package in order to
move to x64. I have some CAD and Photo applications that can benefit from a
64 bit OS running.

Thank you,

Bob S.

BobS wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Allow me to jump in here to ask a question. You appear to have the best
> answers from what I've been reading so far.....
>
> I have WinXP Pro (32 bit verion) Volume license on one of my workstations
> now and I would like to upgrade to Vista Ultimate x64 version 9retail).
> Can I do it with the the Vista Ultimate Upgrade package (which has both
> 32 and 64 bit DVD's) or must I have a 64 bit version of WinXP installed?

You can do it with the 64 bit upgrade edition of Vista.

> I think the answer is that I can't and must buy the full package in order
> to move to x64. I have some CAD and Photo applications that can benefit
> from a 64 bit OS running.

Pop in the Vista upgrade DVD for x64 and off you go.
--
Tom Porterfield

Tom, can you do a clean install of Vista64 from the upgrade version? I have
WinXP32 and don't want an 'upgrade', I'd prefer to do a clean install... I'm
assuming the term upgrade only means you have to have a previous windows OS
license to get a new one for less than the retail version

"Tom Porterfield" wrote:

> BobS wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Allow me to jump in here to ask a question. You appear to have the best
> > answers from what I've been reading so far.....
> >
> > I have WinXP Pro (32 bit verion) Volume license on one of my workstations
> > now and I would like to upgrade to Vista Ultimate x64 version 9retail).
> > Can I do it with the the Vista Ultimate Upgrade package (which has both
> > 32 and 64 bit DVD's) or must I have a 64 bit version of WinXP installed?
>
> You can do it with the 64 bit upgrade edition of Vista.
>
> > I think the answer is that I can't and must buy the full package in order
> > to move to x64. I have some CAD and Photo applications that can benefit
> > from a 64 bit OS running.
>
> Pop in the Vista upgrade DVD for x64 and off you go.
> --
> Tom Porterfield
>

deek wrote:
> Tom, can you do a clean install of Vista64 from the upgrade version? I
> have WinXP32 and don't want an 'upgrade', I'd prefer to do a clean
> install... I'm assuming the term upgrade only means you have to have a
> previous windows OS license to get a new one for less than the retail
> version

Yes you can. The basic process would be to boot with the Vista64 upgrade
disk, enter your upgrade PK, let it find XP on the hard drive, and then
proceed to the disk configuration portion of the install where you could
format the existing partition that contains XP and lay your Vista 64 there.
--
Tom Porterfield