Mark

After completing the installation of all programs, make a backup!
Then, if you ever need to re-install, use the backup.
You only do it once, in less than 20 minutes and it's already activated
with all your apps installed.


"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5957355F-582B-4876-A6DF-8E3CAFEEBEDE@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>>
>>