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Re: Question about clean installing with upgrade media
"lsproc" <lsproc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4D7D8B7-262C-47EF-A4A5-8D76AFDC7D8D@microsoft.com...
> Its common knowledge now that you can do a clean install of Vista with
> upgrade media. My question is, if you do have a previous copy of XP, is it
> legal to do this method. Would you get thwarted by Activation or WGA?
>
> I really do not want to go and have an unclean install of Vista from the
> upgrade, though I guess I could get it as nice and clean as possible by
> installing Vista and nothing else (not even drivers).
>
> What would you reccomend?
You can upgrade either an 2000/XP installation or a Vista 30 Day Trial to a
clean install of the full version of Vista ready to be activated. So what
you do is install Vista without entering a product key which installs the
trial... then go back to setup and install Vista again doing a clean install
which "upgrades" the trial when entering your product key. I don't think
Microsoft have a problem with people upgrading their Vista trials the
upgrade version of Vista costs more anyway.
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