Thanks, Dwarf. I was afraid of that.
Does MS document this anywyhere so that I can show him? I saw a table
showing the upgrade options from Windows 2000 and XP, but nothing between
versions of Vista.
Steve
"Dwarf" wrote:
Quote:
> 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