| Subject: XP Pro Oem to Vista Business Full |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 6:53:38 AM |
| From: jritson [Email Address Protection] |
A month back I bought a Dell Latitude D630 with XP Pro installed. After seeing that Vista SP1 solved a bunch of problems with Vista I decided I want to go with Vista on my laptop. I bought the full version of Vista Business from the Windows Marketplace. Microsoft says (unless I misunderstood) that there is a valid upgrade path from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business. I am starting the install from the disk and from within Windows. The Upgrade Advisor says I am ready to go. But... When I enter my key and move forward upgrading is grayed out and is unavailable. There is a message on the screen that says upgrade checking has been disabled. Did I just donate $300 to Microsoft? -- jritson |
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| Subject: Re: XP Pro Oem to Vista Business Full |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 7:20:31 AM |
| From: "Kerry Brown" [Email Address Protection] |
Are you booting from the DVD? To upgrade you have to start the installation from within the OS you want to upgrade. While running XP insert the Vista DVD and start the installation. I don't recommend you upgrade in any case. I recommend a clean install. Vista is better than previous versions of Windows at upgrading from an older OS but there are still cases where the upgrade may cause problems. The problems are usually caused by already installed applications not being Vista compatible. After an upgrade this can be very hard to diagnose which app is the problem. If you do a clean install, then reinstall the apps, the problem app will be apparent immediately after it is installed. In some cases just installing the app in Vista will fix it because of the virtual registry and file store whereas upgrading from XP to Vista with the app already installed will cause problems. If you must upgrade here is my standard spiel on how to prepare the computer for the upgrade. 1) Backup your PC. 2) Back it up again. 3) Test your backups. If you skip the above steps please don't whine that the upgrade trashed all your files. Any process that involves this many changes to the file system is fraught with danger. If you don't have a full backup of your pc before starting the upgrade you are a fool. 4) Run the latest version of the Upgrade Advisor and note anything it flags. 5) Uninstall (not disable) all antivirus, antispyware, firewall, disk utility, and system utility programs even if the upgrade advisor doesn't mention them. You will need to install Vista compatible versions after the upgrade is finished. 6) Uninstall (not disable) all programs that the upgrade advisor flags as possible problems. You will need to install Vista compatible versions after the upgrade is finished. 7) If possible remove all hardware that the upgrade advisor flags as incompatible. 8) Make sure you have Vista compatible drivers and software for all your hardware devices burned to CD. Don't just look for drivers that the upgrade advisor mentioned. If possible have drivers ready for everything. 9) Physically unplug any external devices like portable hard drives, printers, card readers, flash drives, cameras, etc.. 10) Run a chkdsk on all the partitions on all hard drives still connected. 11) Defrag the system and boot partitions. 12) Start the Vista upgrade process. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "jritson" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:c1abb3e236b247715c03b533b855b397@nntp-gateway.com... > > A month back I bought a Dell Latitude D630 with XP Pro installed. After > seeing that Vista SP1 solved a bunch of problems with Vista I decided I > want to go with Vista on my laptop. > > I bought the full version of Vista Business from the Windows > Marketplace. Microsoft says (unless I misunderstood) that there is a > valid upgrade path from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business. I am starting the > install from the disk and from within Windows. The Upgrade Advisor says > I am ready to go. But... > > When I enter my key and move forward upgrading is grayed out and is > unavailable. There is a message on the screen that says upgrade checking > has been disabled. > > Did I just donate $300 to Microsoft? > > > -- > jritson |
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| Subject: Re: XP Pro Oem to Vista Business Full |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 8:45:31 AM |
| From: jritson [Email Address Protection] |
Kerry, I prefer an upgrade for a whole bunch of reasons. I am starting the install process from my hard drive and not booting into disk. I have yet to try running install from the DVD; I may try that next. -- jritson |
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| Subject: Re: XP Pro Oem to Vista Business Full |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 10:23:42 AM |
| From: "Carey Frisch [MVP]" [Email Address Protection] |
You cannot select the Upgrade option when you try to install Windows Vista, and you receive the following message: "Upgrade has been disabled" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926069/en-us More help: http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?mode=a&query=upgrade+disabled&catalog=LCID%3D1033&1033comm=1&spid=11732 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows Vista Enthusiast --------------------------------------------------------------- "jritson" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:c1abb3e236b247715c03b533b855b397@nntp-gateway.com... A month back I bought a Dell Latitude D630 with XP Pro installed. After seeing that Vista SP1 solved a bunch of problems with Vista I decided I want to go with Vista on my laptop. I bought the full version of Vista Business from the Windows Marketplace. Microsoft says (unless I misunderstood) that there is a valid upgrade path from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business. I am starting the install from the disk and from within Windows. The Upgrade Advisor says I am ready to go. But... When I enter my key and move forward upgrading is grayed out and is unavailable. There is a message on the screen that says upgrade checking has been disabled. Did I just donate $300 to Microsoft? -- jritson |
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| Subject: Re: XP Pro Oem to Vista Business Full |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 3:37:28 PM |
| From: "Kerry Brown" [Email Address Protection] |
Have you checked with Dell? I have seen an OEM computer that wouldn't upgrade because of an OEM non-standard boot sector. In the case I saw the upgrade option wasn't grayed out though. It just failed part way through the upgrade. Have you checked Carey's post? I haven't seen it on a Dell but some OEM computers do come formatted as FAT32. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "jritson" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:a92592da08ef9a00dc8ac01b3a2f0599@nntp-gateway.com... > > Kerry, > > I prefer an upgrade for a whole bunch of reasons. I am starting the > install process from my hard drive and not booting into disk. I have yet > to try running install from the DVD; I may try that next. > > > -- > jritson |
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