Vista - Ultimate will not install over my Home Premium

I have a full version of Home Premium and have been running it for a year or
more.
I bought Vista Ultimate upgrade. However when I try and install and upgrade
to Premium I get a message saying...

You need a newer version of this software to upgrade.

I am running Vista SP1. It offers to do a clean install, which I do not want.

What does Ultimate want?? It is so vague.

If it is an upgrade it certainly does not need a clean install.

Any help on this?

Jim

The copy of Ultimate that you purchased doesn't have SP1 on the disc right?

If it does it will stated on the disc that SP1 is included.

If the disk doesn't have SP1 then it won't upgrade.

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you are running Vista SP1, and the version of Vista on the DVD is
pre-SP1, it will not upgrade the system. If you have installed SP1 as an
update to your system, you can uninstall it, run the upgrade and then
re-apply SP1..



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Uninstall SP1 and then do the upgrade. The message is telling you that the
dvd has a version of Windows older than the one already on the hard drive.
It has to be the same as the one on the hard driver or newer.

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thank you I will try that.




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