Tom

Yeh, it was activated, I have used the upgrade before. Unfortunately, I came
to the conclusion that something installed on my system must not be
cooperating with my upgrade, and to save me the frustration of uninstalling 1
thing at a time to troubleshoot it, I instead frustrated myself with
reinstalling. Not the outcome I wanted, but with the amount of applications
I had installed it would have been a very time consuming task.

I will note that reinstalling Vista to my PC with Home Prem, activating, and
immediately upgrading prior to driver installation and updates allowed me to
upgrade to Ultimate again. I wish I could offer more information on why it
was failing, but atleast the issue is resolved somewhat.

I appreciate your help.

"Mark" wrote:

> 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
> news:AF91D1F1-EE6F-430A-92A0-C615618192E4@microsoft.com...
> >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.
>
>