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    If I were to upgrade....

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by inspirations365, Aug 11, 2008.

  1. inspirations365

    inspirations365 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey everyone.

    If I were to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate, would I lost compatibility with anything? Would I have to re-install drivers?

    Can anyone give any drawbacks to this?

    Any help is much appreciated.
     
    inspirations365, Aug 11, 2008
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    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    You will not lose any compatibility or have to update or change any drivers, you will simply get all the extras installed that aren't in Home Premium.
     
    scottyinco, Aug 11, 2008
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    ccutlip Notebook Guru

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    *As long as it's 32-bit.
     
    ccutlip, Aug 11, 2008
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    inspirations365 Notebook Consultant

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    And what of recovery media? I hear by default there's no recovery partition on my hard drive, which is fine since I have recovery DVDs, but I thought Sony made a recovery partition.....

    Anyway, if I were to upgrade to Ultimate and then down the line discover a problem, would my Vista Home Premium recovery DVDs still work? I'm sure they would downgrade me to Home Premium, but would they work on the Ultimate platform? I'm sure everyone's aware they don't give you the operating system CDs anymore, so a clean install would be out of the question...though if I had to upgrade again I could.


    And yes, it's 32-bit. No problem there.
     
    inspirations365, Aug 11, 2008
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  5. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    when you use your recovery disk ultimate is removed and replaced by Home premium, then you apply the ultimate CD key the microsoft will give you when you purchase the any time upgrade, and it will be back to ultimate.
     
    yuio, Aug 11, 2008
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