problem Reinstalling Vista Home prem upgrade

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I had a failure on a storage HDD that held my old XP install, the drive hadf
failed completly. after that the machine would no longer boot up(Vista is
loaded on a seperate hard drive which is fine) i could still see install but
could not repair and diagnostics kept saying that no vista install existed.
so with no other options i reinstalled, of course this is not allowed so i
have an install that will not validate. my question is do i have to
reinstall xp then upgrade from that? i cant believe it could be that
difficult?
 
The upgrade version is meant to be installed ON TOP OF an existing,
qualifying operating system.

There are ways around this but I do not go into these methods. You might try
Google.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
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