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Entering Vista Home Premium gives error 0xc004f061
You have four options when installing Vista: A. overwrite of the present operating system (imho, A is never an option. .... n-Vidia Force4 mb, an ATI-1900xt and a 9800pro video card, a 3H2G, two 300g Seagate Sata II drives, and five LCD monitors running xp-pro sp2, fs9, fsglobal, ge-pro, fe-pro, and Active-Sky 6.

Vista is a nightmare
An upgrade of Vista will install fully if you do it twice. First time without activation, 2nd install over the same Vista is now an Upgrade to the real thing. I'm currently running XP Pro and planned to do a clean install of Vista and dual boot to XP when needed. But I've just read in another NG that the

Vista Ultimate OEM activation questions
"loaderopp" wrote: Have you tried to install vista on a partition?rather then over XP Do not enter the key untill later in the install. get it up and running Current OS: Windows XP Professional 64bit Edition OEM Vista version: Windows Vista Business 64bit OEM (Express Upgrade) Explanation for choise of Vista: I

Cannot uninstall AVG
The version of Vista included in the Action Pack relies on an existing O/S being present before it will install. I tried Win2k but it didn't want to know. Incidentally, it wasn't an upgrade over an old and clogged XP Pro installation. It was a new minimal base XP install with Vista on top. Paul.

upgrading xp to vista premium question
Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jim" wrote: Do I still need a full license since I already own a "genuine" copy of Windows XP Pro? What then is the purpose of the upgrade license? I would prefer NOT to install over an existing XP

Why can'tI install Vista home preimum on XP Pro SP2 system wi
As I mentioned earlier, I am reluctant to keep this arrangement because it is my understanding that upon Vista activation my XP Pro product key will be de-activated. .... I cannot install Vista. I even sat with customer support for over an hour. Every time I install, it restarts, then the screen goes black.

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
Jim jrwo...@comcast.net microsoft public windows vista general Do I still need a full license since I already own a "genuine" copy of Windows XP Pro? What then is the purpose of the upgrade license? I would prefer NOT to install over an existing XP installation because of possible problems mentioned in the posts.

So I was actually gonna install Vista today...
Charles W Davis Anthemw...@lvcoxmail.com microsoft public windows vista general I continue to recommend that no one upgrade an existing computer. I was going to install Vista Home Basic onto my Gateway 200 ARC laptop. I replaced the 40 Gb original Hitachi HD with Windows XP Pro on it with a squeaky clean

Home Basic on Gateway 200 ARC?
Not Me cargo...@bresnan.net microsoft public windows vista general I setup mine as dual boot, but not from an existing/longtime install of XP. I clean instaled XP Pro, did all updates, then installed a second HDD and clean installed Vista Ultimate. I did several benchmark comparisions before installing any

Installing Vista on top of Vista - and then getting an ...
Do I still need a full license since I already own a "genuine" copy of Windows XP Pro? What then is the purpose of the upgrade license? I would prefer NOT to install over an existing XP installation because of possible problems mentioned in the posts. Jim "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfri...@nospamgmail.com> wrote in

Anyone here Changed from XP OS to Vista ?...
I'd much rather pay ($35, in this case) to just copy it over and be done with it. Or maybe I'll just keep the OS on the old 40Gb, use the entire 160Gb Excuse me, it's XP Pro, right? There shouldn't be any differences between an NTFS partition formated during the install of MCE versus one formatted by XP Pro.

Question on using Vista upgrade version
Choosing the advanced or custom installation option should give you control over sizing the primary partition. VISTA; the new and improved Pandora's Box! I am planning on purchasing a full version of Vista Ultimate. I am currently running XP Pro. My question is, before I install Vista will I need to format my

XP/Vista
So if you read the license agreement or not you have in effect by installing Vista given media companies without your knowledge, blessing or any legal recourse the right to Business does not want it(Security Issues) and will stick with XP professional and consumers will move to Ubuntu Linux, Apple and Mac's.

How to Get Windows XP After June 30, 2008
Someone who is doing disaster recovery after a hard drive failure or a virus infection won't be able to wipe their hard drive and install Vista, One possibility is that Microsoft is afraid that people might try to keep running XP or Media Center on their existing machines and use Vista on a new computer.

Windows Vista Premium Upgrade for Win 2000 Pro or Windows XP
... non-technical Hi Everyone :-) I have a laptop running XP Pro with BDS 2006 installed and my software finally converted over from D6 and blah blah blah. I am running MySQL 4.xx now instead of 3.23 and the new quickreports. I understand it's a potential pain to install BDS 2006 on an existing Vista machine.

"downgrade" from Vista to XP
danman32 danma...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Ben100014" wrote: Hi, I recently tried to upgrade XP Pro to Windows Vista won't let you do that, it can only install through an existing OS, not by booting from the media. So, you can do a clean install of Vista,

Confusion on upgrade vs. full versions - please help!
So I have two choices since I do need windows occasionally: - Reinstall XP - Bite the bullet and install Vista. Reinstall XP apparently is not an easy option I actually have to have to install it (which I can't easily) and do an in-place upgrade (which I can't do with the existing install either as the file

Media Center creates non-standard NTFS partitions?
I would learn how to use Vista in your environment and deploy it on new computers, leaving the existing workstations as they are until they are replaced or you have an application I ahve tried it with a virgin XP Pro install and it works with and without, but with the Vista install, it won't work either way.

Swapping over Licences and versions
One is to buy an FPP XP license before June 30 and install it over Vista. The other is to "downgrade" to XP Professional, using an XP Pro install disc you already have or a "downgrade" XP You can use your existing XP Pro install discs or get an XP "downgrade" disc from the PC maker (if it wants to supply it).

upgrading from xp pro to vista 64
For instance, with XP Pro x64 and Windows 2000, you are eligible for the Upgrade but need to do a Clean Install. And from MCE2005 and XP Pro, to change another pc over to Vista and it tempts me to use the upgrade version and do a clean install but I don't want to later be stuck re-installing XP MCE2005 from the