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Vista - Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

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Old 11-23-2008   #1 (permalink)
Peter Flannery


 
 

Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

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

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Old 11-23-2008   #2 (permalink)
Rob Norton


 
 

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

Peter Flannery wrote:
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
Your laptop likely is preloaded with Vista SP1 and your ultimate upgrade
disk was an original RTM version. An internet search may locate an SP1
upgrade iso that you could burn to disk.
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Old 11-23-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimatex64 Windows 7 build 7100
 
 

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

If you have the DVD, make sure that your Laptop is set to boot from DVD, insert the DVD and restart the Laptop.
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Old 11-23-2008   #4 (permalink)
PvdG42


 
 

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate


"Peter Flannery" <black_adder@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

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Old 11-23-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate 64bit SP2/
 
 

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

Or you can do a clean install with the upgrade disc just backup the files you want.

Clean Install From Upgrade Vista

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
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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