Hi George,
If you use the Recovery set to wipe out the system (as it's designed to) and
cleanly reinstall WinXP Home, then sure that will work for the upgrade.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"George Watson" <gfcwatson1-news@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Earlier I purchased the Recovery Discs ( 2+1 ) for XP Home, will they
> work thro' XP Pro & the Evaluation Vista ?
>
> Cost wise ( UK ) the clean XP Home, with an Upgrade to Vista Premium
> is the best financially - however, when making the transition from XP
> Home to Pro had many problems recovering drivers etc.
>
> Thank you, Rick, for your quick reply
>
> Mate
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:33:30 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi Mate,
>>
>>To use Home Premium would require a clean install with a full version to a
>>formatted disk, or a clean install of XP Home and then an upgrade (note
>>that
>>you cannot do a clean install with an upgrad disk without installing XP
>>Home
>>first, the upgrade must be started from within an existing, qualifying
>>OS).
>>The eval copy of Vista Ultimate could only possibly be upgraded to the
>>full
>>release version of Ultimate, and that's not truely an upgrade, but rather
>>an
>>overwrite with newer code. The prerelease Vista software does not qualify
>>for use of an upgrade disk.
> ============
>
> G.Watson
>
> gfcwatson1-groups@yahoo.co.uk