Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

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Peter Flannery

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
 
Peter said:
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
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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.
 
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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That shouldn't be a factor when changing versions.
 
Ah ... yeah, it is, actually. You cannot upgrade an SP1 operating system
using a non-SP1 install/upgrade disc.
 
Peter Flannery said:
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
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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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