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William R. Walsh
Hello all...
I thought that I would take a nonessential computer system I have and
install an upgrade copy of Windows Vista Business on it. Since it is a
Windows 2000 Professional box at the moment, I knew a clean installation
would be required. I wanted to see what had changed since the betas and see
if I could work at transitioning slowly to the new version of Windows. I
hadn't particularly cared for the new UI (the new fixed toolbars in the
Explorer windows--as well as not being able to switch to a mode where each
folder opens in its own window really didn't sit well with me) and hoped
that some of these options would be coming back in the final product. The
"new look" of Windows that appeared in XP has not appealed to me and Vista
is worse. But that's beside the point, so I'll quit ranting about it.
So I figured--why not go ahead and do the upgrade on a freshly cleaned off
hard drive? I wiped the hard drive before starting. Then I booted the Vista
CD, started the run through setup, and hoped to provide my original OS CD as
proof that I could upgrade...only that doesn't work! Vista setup says I need
to reboot and run setup from my operating system in order to upgrade.
There's nothing "wrong" with the original OS CD...it is part of a genuine
*boxed* copy of Windows 2000 Professional that I purchased new.
Now that is incredibly irritating and strange. Why is my original operating
system CD not good enough as proof of entitlement to upgrade?
William
I thought that I would take a nonessential computer system I have and
install an upgrade copy of Windows Vista Business on it. Since it is a
Windows 2000 Professional box at the moment, I knew a clean installation
would be required. I wanted to see what had changed since the betas and see
if I could work at transitioning slowly to the new version of Windows. I
hadn't particularly cared for the new UI (the new fixed toolbars in the
Explorer windows--as well as not being able to switch to a mode where each
folder opens in its own window really didn't sit well with me) and hoped
that some of these options would be coming back in the final product. The
"new look" of Windows that appeared in XP has not appealed to me and Vista
is worse. But that's beside the point, so I'll quit ranting about it.

So I figured--why not go ahead and do the upgrade on a freshly cleaned off
hard drive? I wiped the hard drive before starting. Then I booted the Vista
CD, started the run through setup, and hoped to provide my original OS CD as
proof that I could upgrade...only that doesn't work! Vista setup says I need
to reboot and run setup from my operating system in order to upgrade.
There's nothing "wrong" with the original OS CD...it is part of a genuine
*boxed* copy of Windows 2000 Professional that I purchased new.
Now that is incredibly irritating and strange. Why is my original operating
system CD not good enough as proof of entitlement to upgrade?
William