Jeffrey S. Sparks

Once you have it installed, create a backup and restore from backup. I use
a program called acronis v10 and it works great with vista.

Jeff


"jhoelz" <jhoelz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade yesterday in loaded it just fine
> on my machine that was running a validated version of XP Pro using a clean
> install. Everything went fine as I poked and tweaked with some of my other
> software installs. After loading all of my stuff, even that I did not want
> just for testing purposes I decided to do another clean install of the OS
> to
> wipe out any of the junk I did not want.
>
> I installed the DVD, fired up the machine and booted from the DVD. Went
> through the installation process, a clean install, entered the key and
> formated my drive. THats all the farther you can go, I get the "To use the
> product key you entered, start the installation on a computer that is
> running
> a genuine version of Windows".
>
> So no I need to reinstall XP Pro, do the updates to get the WGA installed
> and then re-install Vista.
>
> If this is right this is total garbage, everytime I want to do a clean
> install I need to install the previous OS first? As someone who works in
> the
> tech industry I iften need to install other 3rd party software for testing
> and review. In the past when it bunged up my machine I would just do a
> clean
> install, insert my previous verison of windows and go on my way.