Hi,
Sorry, but that is not possible. The only upgrade possible from Home Premium
is to the Ultimate edition. The reason is because the Home Premium edition
includes media components whereas the Business version doesn't. To install
the Business edition you will need to perform a clean install.
Dwarf
"planetearth" wrote:
Quote:
> My friend got an excellent deal on the FULL Vista Business CD when CompUSA
> was going out of sale. Since then, he bought a new Dell laptop with Vista
> Home Premium on it, and just wants to *upgrade* to Vista Business.
> He does NOT want to wipe Home Premium to replace it with Business, since the
> laptop has all the drivers and MS Works (which he wants to upgrade to Office
> Standard 2007 using the "upgrade" version).
> Can he use the full version of Vista Business to just upgrade Vista Home
> premium? As I recall, this wasn't always an option with older versions of
> Windows: if you had the "full" version on CD, you couldn't upgrade from it;
> you could only wipe and replace.
> Thanks!
>
> Steve