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12-08-2007
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| | Installing Vista Home basic with Home Premium DVD If I buy a Laptop with Vista Home Basic and then reformat the hard drive (to get rid of any unwanted utilities), can I then install Vista Home Basic by using an OEM Home Premium DVD but entering the licence number of the original Home Basic? (It will be a bit frustrating if the OEM DVD does not contain a driver for the laptop network!) Is there an equivalent of the Linux 'Live CD's for Vista. i.e. a CD that you can boot from and then complete an installation via an Internet connection? -- Michael Chare |
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12-08-2007
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| | Re: Installing Vista Home basic with Home Premium DVD Depends, since the OEM Home Basic DVD your system came with might contain drivers specific to that system. -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "Michael Chare" <MunderscoreNEWS@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:KOSdnRoRT_DnqMbanZ2dnUVZ8tOmnZ2d@xxxxxx Quote: > If I buy a Laptop with Vista Home Basic and then reformat the hard drive > (to get rid of any unwanted utilities), can I then install Vista Home > Basic by using an OEM Home Premium DVD but entering the licence number of > the original Home Basic? > > (It will be a bit frustrating if the OEM DVD does not contain a driver for > the laptop network!) > > Is there an equivalent of the Linux 'Live CD's for Vista. i.e. a CD that > you can boot from and then complete an installation via an Internet > connection? > > -- > Michael Chare |
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12-10-2007
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| | RE: Installing Vista Home basic with Home Premium DVD I don't think the licensing / verification used by Microsoft will allow that. It seems to me like it would be a whole lot simpler to just remove the unwanted utilities using the Control Panel. I've done this with two pre-installed Vista machines (one Home Basic, one Home Premium) with a great deal of success. |
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12-10-2007
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| | Re: Installing Vista Home basic with Home Premium DVD "PhilBiker" <PhilBiker@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0D723164-9233-41D0-A59E-A399AC1B15B4@xxxxxx Quote: >I don't think the licensing / verification used by Microsoft will allow >that. > > It seems to me like it would be a whole lot simpler to just remove the > unwanted utilities using the Control Panel. I've done this with two > pre-installed Vista machines (one Home Basic, one Home Premium) with a > great > deal of success. Thanks, I can always try that. The laptop will likely come with a recovery DVD and partition, which may or may not these unwanted utilities! -- Michael Chare |
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