Rock

"EJR" <ejruthenberg@comcast.net> wrote

>I did an upgrade from XP pro to Vista Ultimate. Now there are a number of
>annoyances that I wonder if a clean install can fix. Can I do a clean
>install to another drive? I've already activated Vista.


The Vista license does not allow for two installations of Vista with the
same license at the same time, but you can do a custom install using the
upgrade Vista edition. If you have data on the current Vista installation
that you want to move to the new one, first run the Windows Easy Transfer
(WET) to save the data and settings to a USB drive or DVD/CD. Reinstall XP,
activate, do the custom install (apps and data will not be migrated. The XP
install will be placed in the windows.old folder), then reinstall apps from
original media and restore the data and settings with WET. Delete the
windows.old folder.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]