Clean install of upgrade Ultimate problem.

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Greybeard

With XP Pro, during clean install, setup asks user to insert ME or 98 to
show owner qualifies for upgrade.

Tried to install Vista Ultimate upgrade as clean install. It never asked to
"see" my XP Pro copy, and when it got to "Pick drive for install" page it
said the registration code used (update) did not support the clean install
and would go no further. Did I miss something, or did MS go feral?

I tried to install XP Pro to new raid 0 array, but it refuses to see the
drive array during installation, even though it is visible on bios and at
boot.

Will I need to add a non-raid SATA drive, install XP Pro to that, overwrite
with Vista Ultimate, then somehow copy that full data to the raid 0 striped
array?

Seems excessive.

And... why does my I.P. show this ng as empty? No other install problems?
 
Did you start installation from within xp pro? or boot up from disk? Because
someone on a local messageboard claimed that he was able to choose a
different partition than xp was on after he typed in his key and perform a
clean install with an upgrade key and dualboot. This was after he started
setup from within xp. I still dont beleive him lol


Ken
 
By the way he chose custom install to do this

Ken








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I am also having problems getting Vista to install.

Ran Vista upgrade disk with winXP running, custom install, it let me
install and expand on a second pre-formatted harddrive. It rebooted
twice things OK. On the third reboot install hosed by boot manager
and now it stalls telling me that windows\system32\winload\exe is
missing, error# oxcoooooof. The boot manager will allow me to boot
into XP but not Vista on second drive.

I have tried many things to get it to work and now I can not get as
far as the first install. When Vista Upgrade DVD is writing to d-
drive it stops with a error that files are missing or corrupt error#
ox80070241.

Looking around the net seems like I am not alone..where's the fix? HELP
 
Or tried boot off last known configeration which worked or whatever it is by
pressing f8 at boot screen?

Ken
 
Ken,

You are correct. I went into panic mode after this board stated that you
could not dual boot with a Vista Upgrade. Well...I installed last
night...choose custom install....asked me where I wanted to install....choose
a second 250GB disk...I'm now running a dual boot system (Media Center
2005/Vista Ultimate)....and a clean install onto a second hard drive. So
yes...a Vista upgrade can do a clean/custom install and it can dual boot.
 
Have you tried booting off dvd and doing a repair?










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Ken, I tried that with no luck. I have since reformatted my second
drive to try again. New problem is I get a error (missing or corrupt
file) writting from DVD to D-Drive and install stops.
 
By reinstalling Vista over a previous copy of Vista, you are defeating the XP
activated requirement, to use an upgrade disc. Isn't this a form of piracy,
as you are using a full version, and only paid for an upgrade? Use of an
upgrade disc and choosing" custom" install, would give you a 'clean" install
anyway, and would be the correct way to do the upgrade. You can always delete
the windows .old folder after you are done installing Vista.Or is the double
install of Vista allowed by Microsoft I await your reply as I am sure many
others do.
 
Yeah, I'd love to hear MS's official stance on this method of
'subverting their intentions'. One would think they had no idea how
upset folks would get that they couldn't do a true 'clean install' with
an upgrade disk, as they have always been able to do. Given MS's
penitent for focus groups I find this unlikely, so they must have not
cared about people's feelings on this issue.
 
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By reinstalling Vista over a previous copy of Vista, you are
defeating the XP activated requirement, to use an upgrade
disc. Isn't this a form of piracy, as you are using a full
version, and only paid for an upgrade? Use of an upgrade
disc and choosing" custom" install, would give you a 'clean"
install anyway, and would be the correct way to do the
upgrade. You can always delete the windows .old folder after
you are done installing Vista.Or is the double install of
Vista allowed by Microsoft I await your reply as I am sure
many others do.
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I had no problem what so ever doing a clean install and the
method is part of the upgrade package. Once the install hase
detected the older software it is looking for it questions what
kind of upgrade you would like to do. One method upgrades what
you have in place to include settings and software (I didn't
try that) or as I did, a clean install on a seperate partition.
I'll keep the dual boot situation going until I satistified I
have a stable system. Then I'll downsize the XP partition and
give that to Vista.

Ed P
 
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