vista upgrade?

[kier357]

with the home premium upgrade.. can you upgrade from an illegit copy of windows xp?? :confused:

not that i have an illegit copy installed..... just wondering :)

[Fireblade]

not that i have an illegit copy installed..... just wondering :)

Yeah... right! If you didn't have an illegal copy of XP... you wouldn't need to ask the question :rolleyes:

In answer to the question... I sincerely hope you can't!?


Anyways... the only people who'd be able to answer the question, would be those who've done it... thereby admitting they must've been using an illegal copy of XP themselves :confused:

[nicky munchkin]

Its cheaper to buy OEM Full than to buy the upgrade anyways.

[reaper]

I have no doubt most folk will have read this elsewhere already, but you can do basically a clean install even with just the upgrade disc, thereby doing away with the requirement to have any form of XP/2000 etc on the machine first. This is what I have done myself, even though I do have a pukka copy of XP should I need it, before anybody asks! Anybody worth their salt as an enthusiast would do a clean install rather than an upgrade anyway I should imagine.

I don't want to post links to other sites, but if you do a google for "vista upgrade clean" I am sure you will see what I mean. It does mean running the Vista installation twice, but no XP/2000 required.

Plus, if you buy the retail upgrade, it should in theory mean less hassle hopefully if you ever want to move your Vista to a new machine ie it's not OEM. Also, it's obviously a good chunk cheaper to buy the upgrade rather than the full retail pack.

:)

[nicky munchkin]

It is also a good chunk cheaper to buy the oem full than the upgrade http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_6631.html
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_6633.html

[reaper]

From a personal view though, Premium suited my needs fine. I also wanted the scope to move the software to a new machine somewhere down the line if I so wished. To save any issues with this, retail was the only way to go. I know OEM is cheaper, but you could argue till you are blue in the face about the legalities of moving OEM to an entirely new machine, so lets not go there. :)

My point is that you needn't go and buy the full retail pack to do this, just the retail upgrade, and the outcome is fundamentally the same. Whether or not MS will choose to close down the upgrade loophole is anybody's guess. For the time being they seem to be saying they can't be bothered.

:rolleyes:

[kier357]

i don't want OEM as im in a slow process of upgrading and will need a new motehrboard quite soon, and i hear that the OEM vista is tied to your motherboard.

iv seen the method to do a clean install with the upgrade, and if they choose not to fix it then that may be my route into vista as the full retail is just way too much in my opinion..

and i do have a legit serial key for my windows xp, but my disc broke and i have to use a backup of the disc :)

thanks for the replies anyways :D

[[GPO]Solitaire]

if you have a "legit" cd-key then there should be no problem,
although the "Alternitive" upgrade method would also work ;)

[Fireblade]

and i do have a legit serial key for my windows xp, but my disc broke and i have to use a backup of the disc :)

In that case... I apologize... but had you said as much in your first post... it wouldn't have prompted that response from me in the first place ;)

It's not illegal to use a copy of the XP CD - as long as you have a genuine CD key for it.