Mark

Did you activate the Home Premium after re-installing it?
Required to perform the Anytime Upgrade.

Is your Home Premium disk in the player during your Anytime upgrade.
Required since it is not really downloaded, it just gets a "better"
product
key and performs an upgrade with your original disk.


"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to upgrade Vista from Home Premium to Ultimate. I have
>purchased
> the Anytime upgrade some time ago and have used it several times without
> any
> issues. Now I am having an issue, Vista Home Premium was reinstalled on
> my
> machine due to partition changes, and have been running it the last 2
> weeks
> with just Home Premium as the upgrade takes a while to do. I tried to do
> the
> upgrade last night, and I get an error when its at the last step of the
> upgrade, error code 0xc00000005, it says that my source media is
> unavailable,
> it tells me to make it available again and to try again. It then does a
> system restore to before I attempted the upgrade.
>
> I need to know why this isn't working. My Vista disk is not scratched at
> all, it is completely clean, save taking it out to use it, it goes back
> into
> the storage case. I do not really want to have to reinstall Vista again
> as I
> probably am going to have to call India to have it activated again, plus
> all
> the software I need to reinstall (I have 1TB of storage space). If anyone
> is
> familiar of why this would be occuring, or what I could do as a workaround
> to
> fix this, please let me know as I can't find anything specific to this in
> internet searches.
>
> Thanks.