Anyone with Ultimate Upgrade

[broly8877]

So, what's the word?

Please don't link me to sites that say it isn't possible, I want to know if one of you gents have confirmed the aforementioned sites.

Will Ultimate Upgrade really require XP installed beforehand?

 

[Shawn]

No. This has been posted many times. Basically what you have to do is boot from the cd and install Vista without a cd key, then rerun the setup program from within your newly installed Vista, put in your upgrade key and instruct the setup program to do a clean install. This will wipe out the previous Vista install.

So in essence you have to install Vista twice.

 

[broly8877]

Just saw that on the main page. That's better than before, I guess.

 

[usernamemax20charact]

If you have to install Vista twice, then it's like installing XP and then Vista, no?

And can the above method (install Vista and then install Vista again) be done with any upgrade version of Vista?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: usernamemax20charact
If you have to install Vista twice, then it's like installing XP and then Vista, no?

And can the above method (install Vista and then install Vista again) be done with any upgrade version of Vista?

It appears so yes. Also Vista installs faster than XP.

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Also Vista installs faster than XP.

Ah, didn't know that. Thx.

Now to decide whether to upgrade or not.

:scratches head:

 

[avd1971]

Hi All

This is no doubt a really stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway .. when you do a clean install under vista ultimate (more particularly, an upgrade version) do you still get the opportunity to reformat your HD as you do when installing XP?

The reason I ask is I recently upgraded my computer including a 320gig hardrive..my XP disk is one of the original ones (pre SP1), so when I reformatted for a clean install of XP, the HD formatting was limited to 137Gig and effectively I have about 2/3 of my hardrive space wasted. XP only began to recognise larger capacity drives from SP1 on I believe.

After doing all the XP updates to SP2 and beyond I am supposed to be able to get acces to the unallocated space, but I have not figured out how. To be fair, I only really gave it a cursory try and after no luck with the disk management of XP or the Seagate discwizard software, I gave up.

Given I planned to upgrade to Vista shortly, I was prepared to live with the reduced HD space for a couple of months as I expected vista would recognise the true size of my HD as I reformatted it through vista during the upgrade/installation procedure.

After first reading about the clean instal issue for upgrade versions, I was fearing I would be forced to buy a complete edition if I wanted to have the full capacity of my hardrive recognised...as first installing my old XP disc would leave me with the reduced HD capacity again.

Anyway, so back to my original question, as long as the upgrade version of vista (ultimate) gives me that reformat option, I can use the fix talked about above and go aead and buy the upgrade version after all, hopefully?

Thanks in advance for any help.
cheers

 

[Captante]

Another Ultimate upgrade question ... using the upgrade retail version will I still have the option to dual-boot with XP Pro assuming I have a second HD/partition for the purpose?