"Peter Flannery" <black_adder@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:419D15DC-FD77-43F9-AA59-ACF936C20A99@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hello Everybody
> My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista
> Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new
> one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows:
> "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install
> windows
> please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with
> a
> 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I have
> is
> also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks & regards
> --
> PF
One possibility to overcome your situation (and, I must admit that I'm not
sure it will work in your case), is to look at the list of installed updates
on the new computer, locate SP1 and uninstall it. YOUr Ultimate upgrade DVD
should then work. Once you've upgraded, reinstall SP1.