Vista - Clean Install From Upgrade Vista

You're welcome Mitchell.

I want to give you a great big THANK YOU!!!!! If it wasn't for you I probably would have booted the computer down the stairs.... The clean install worked very well... Thankyou again...

Kelly

You're most welcome Kelly, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Hi Brink,

Not sure if this is already answered in the post - I've trawled through but anyway just a quickie.

I have vista home premium on an acer laptop which has decided to have a hissy fit and gives me BSOD every boot - safe mode, last known good config etc.
I've tried the recovery disk (downloaded from neosmart i think).
I've pulled all the important files off using puppy linux.

I've spoke to MS who have directed me to Acer for recovery disks but to be honest I'm losing money by the hour because I'm self-employed. Thus I am willing to fork out the 80GBP to download the Vista Home Prem upgrade SP1 (with a free copy of Windows 7 when it arrives on 22/10).

My question is, becuase I can't boot the system and the current Vista is corrupt am I going to run into any problems doing the clean install. I know there was a previous thought that one needed to run the upgrade from within the booted OS, but I'm right in presuming thats wrong.... right?

Basically I don't want to have to fork out 80GBP for the upgrade only to find that I should have forked out 160GBP for the full version.

Many thanks in advance.

Tobe

Hello Tobe, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Have you already tried doing a factory restore from the hard drive recovery partition at boot to see you may be able to reinstall Vista this way? For Acer, you would tap F10 every second during boot to enter the recovery manager. You can scroll down to Q7 in the link below for more details on how to do a factory recovery though.

Acer Service & Support



As long as this is a retail copy of Vista and not a OEM (Acer) or Anytime Upgrade Vista, then you should be able to boot from the retail DVD as in the tutorial to completely format the hard drive and install it.

You would only run into a problem booting from the retail Vista if you have some sort hardware or BIOS issue, and not just a corrupted current install.

Hi Brink and thanks for coming back so quick.

I have a problem with the Acer erecovery system - my laptop failed about 2 months ago and Vista was reinstalled by a repair centre, but no partition was made etc. It is not an option to go back to the repair centre unfortunately.

I'm plannig to purchase vista from ;

Buy, download Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 Upgrade from Microsoft Store UK

I assume that this will do the trick.

Regarding the hardware/bios issue, I can access the hard drive using Puppy Linux so I assuming that the HD is ok. I haven't had any other problems other than screen flicker but thats a separate issue thats now resolved.

Again many thanks Brink.

Tobe

You're welcome Tobe.

Yep, that is a retail (RTM) copy of Vista, so you can get the upgrade version and do the tutorial to do a clean install without a problem.

Hi Brink,
I have Vista Business on my Desk Top. I purchased a Windows 7 Home premium Upgrade Family pack. I know that I cannot do a upgrade from Vista Business to Windows 7 Home premium. Can I do a clean install with this upgrade Windows 7 Home premium DVD??

Hello Ricky, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Yes, you sure can.

Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version - Windows 7 Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for your prompt and quick reply.

Thanks,
Ricky