Vista - Replacing Hard Drive

I upgraded from Win XP to Win Vista Home Premium. My hard drive crashed and
I have to replace with a new one. Do I have to load Win XP and then do the
upgrade to Vista or can I just load Vista to the new drive?

If you have the "upgrade version" of Windows Vista,
then you must install Windows XP, then begin the
upgrade process to Windows Vista while at the Windows XP
desktop.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Jake1" wrote:

I upgraded from Win XP to Win Vista Home Premium. My hard drive crashed and
I have to replace with a new one. Do I have to load Win XP and then do the
upgrade to Vista or can I just load Vista to the new drive?

Despite what Carey would have you believe, you do not have to install XP to
install your vista upgrade.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp

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"Jake1" <Jake1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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As David says, install Vista but do not provide a serial number. Then
reinstall Vista again (over Vista) but this time give it the number. Then
activate.... you may need to call.


"David B." <brooks.dj@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Contrary to what YOU say, Carey's way is the only authorized way -
regardless of work arounds.

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"David B." <brooks.dj@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Everyone is entitled to an opinion, if Microsoft was actually worried about
it they would not have made it possible. "Authorized" or not, you end up at
the same place when your finished. The OP asked a question, and mine was the
correct answer, Carey's was not, as it was not true. The question was do you
have to install XP before the Vista upgrade, the answer is no you do not, if
licensing was mentioned in the OP my answer would have been different.

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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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And there is NO contradiction in my reply, nowhere did I state the procedure
was inline with the license agreement, I just stated it was possible.

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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:00:00 -0400, "David B."
<brooks.dj@xxxxxx> wrote:
I wish I'd known this before I bought 5 copies of the full version (to
enable clean installs) despite being entitled to use the upgrade version.

So this is the other side of the argument. I've ended up buying something I
didn't need because of the ridiculous upgrade route that was published.