Upgrade Question(s)

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I have Windows XP Home installed now on my pc. Will be buying the Windows
Vista Ultimate upgrade primarily for monetary reasons. I understand that once
I install Vista over XP, my XP key is gone.

MY question is, what happens if I have to reinstall Vista, and/or I wish to
revert back to XP for some reason?

Jeff
 
hopefully it will be reinstallable because the way xp worked was after 3
months you could actually transfer it to another machine if you needed to
and were not still using it on the 1st machine you had it on. i don't know
if vista will be that way but i would hope it is or else it's a ripoff.

-jeff
 
Related question: upgrade using an upgrade :)

I have installed XP Pro SP2 Academic Upgrade. However it was a freah
install, I used my old 98se disk as qualifying media.

As far as I understand it, like viiper I'd be after the Ultimate upgrade,
but my XP Pro SP2 Academic cd cannot be used as qualifying media for the
Ultimate upgrade?
 
Rock spake thusly on 1/30/2007 7:01 PM:
If Vista is removed, then XP can be installed on it's own or used again
as the basis for the reinstall with that upgrade key or a new reinstall
with a different key. You just can't have the underlying XP OS and the
upgrade of Vista from that XP OS installed at the same time.
Click to expand...

I've read a number of advice columns (from places such as pcmag.com
pcworld.com and so on) that state you can upgrade *and* dual-boot with
XP. I can't imagine why you couldn't. It doesn't make any sense.
 
You are correct. It wouldn't make sense. As you have noticed, installing
as a dual boot scenario is installing a new OS and not upgrading. I don't
think an upgrade edition permits installation anywhere but the system volume
of the qualigying OS.
 
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