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    Upgrading Vista Home Premium SP1 to Ultimate?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ravenmorpheus, Sep 3, 2008.

  1. ravenmorpheus

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    Hi

    I just took delivery of an Asus M70VM, woot!

    But it came with Vista Home Premium SP1, I was going to upgrade to Vista Ultimate but my Vista Ultimate disk doesn't have SP1 on it so it's not letting me use the upgrade option.

    Is there a way I can upgrade to Ultimate without doing a clean install using my Vista Ultimate install disk and without having to buy an Ultimate SP1 disk?

    Thanks in advance for any help/advice on this. :)
     
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    jcm4 Notebook Evangelist

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    Why wouldn't you want to do a clean install?
     
    jcm4, Sep 3, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Does the Asus come with the OS disc? If so, that will have all versions of Vista and then you just have to put in your new key.
     
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    Ok, I don't want to do a clean install as I'm not confident that I can properly re-install all the drivers.

    I do however have a recovery disk from Asus, but it's not a proper Windows Vista OS disk. I also have a drivers disk.
     
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    You can use the VAU using by buying the disc in a store that comes with a licence since you need to buy a new key anyway
     
    faberge, Sep 3, 2008
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    I would see doing a clean install as a good thing, not a bad thing.

    Especially since you have the drivers disc. But you shouldn't really need it. Let Windows find the drivers automatically and download them from the internet. It's easier, and it may get more up-to-date drivers.
     
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    Well I find it easier doing an upgrade on a system that already has a clean install of Vista than just totally destructively clean installing the OS. Besides I've cleaned out all the bloatware and I have all the Asus apps I want and some other apps installed, I really don't want to have to go through another 12hrs of setting it up when I can just do an upgrade in a matter of an hour or two and have all the settings/installed apps preserved.

    So is there anyway I can do it without a new SP1 disk? Could I use vLite to slipstream SP1 to the disk and then use that? And even if I do have the upgrade option available would my current key be invalid due to it being for a non-SP1 version of ultimate?

    Actually never mind, I've been googling and it seems there is no way to upgrade without an SP1 disk so I'm going to try a clean install instead but in a triple boot if possible.
     
    ravenmorpheus, Sep 9, 2008
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    Search for the thread created my Les on how to do a clean install of Vista. It's pretty straightforward and easy to understand. It's really not that difficult to install drivers. Cmon now, give yourself a little credit. I bet you can do it...
     
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    Yeah, yeah. I know I can do it, I have done it, 3 times on 3 different machines now. And quite frankly I'm getting tired of having to.

    I'm starting to get really annoyed now, I can't even set up a triple boot with another copy of Vista (non-SP1) unless I format my data partition, which is now full of my games that took me the best part of a day to install. :mad:

    It's no wonder people pirate M$ OSs, if you can't do a simple upgrade with a disk you've bought because the OS you're trying to do it on has a newer version then I think M$ should give you a copy of the newer version for $0. They have invalidated my copy of Vista unless I do a clean install and I can't do a clean install without losing some space I want and some stuff I need, and I'll be ****ed if I'm giving M$ more $ just so I can upgrade my OS in a way that allows me to keep what I've installed... :mad:

    Lucky I have Acronis to make backups, the only reason I wanted the Ultimate version of Vista is so I can take advantage of it's full PC backup options as well as using Acronis, just in case...

    Thanks for the advice anyway guys. :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Sep 9, 2008
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