Vista Ultimate will NOT upgrade

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Just received the Vista Ultimate 32 Bit and it says that My LICENSED copy
of
XP PRO SR 2 32 Bit can not be upgraded, a “clean†Custom install only is
the only install availableavailable, As I am running about 25 Gig if
executables, at this point am not ready to have to re-install everything.
any MS people with any ideas besides an Fdisk
The disks that I received came February 22, 2007 and were sent to me by
Microsoft for having beta tested the Vista Ultimate. If I am to be able to
use the 23 bit dist I need tobe able to upgrade my system as I have no desire
to have to spend days reinstalling programs. someone from this group
suggested that these are OEM copies of vista ?
what ever they are they will not allow upgrade of my system from either
within ro with out My XP PRO SR2. And if the disks are not usable who may I
send them back to ?
I guess that I will just have to save some money so that I may buy at retail
what I need at somepoint in the future.
 
Do you have 20GB of disk available in your WinXP partition to use to perform
the upgrade? Or if not in the WinXP partion do you have 15Gb in the XP
partition and 5GB available in another partition for the temp files used
during the upgrade?
 
As far as upgrading from any previous window to vista is not recommended by
me. Even a clean installation are still running some problem with hardware
driver and not lots of software which are not working under vista. Did I
say a lots...? Recommended doing a search on all the softwares are already
in the machine (go the their website some google it) to see if they are
compatible with vista before starting upgrade or do a clean install. I had
to learn the hard way and ending up re-install my vista 5 times to get
everything running smoothly without error. I am running vista 64bit
ultimate smoothly now with all the softwares I needed with the exception
onboard sound were cripple due to driver availability.(using Creative 2zs
instead). My laptop has been up and running for 4 days now without
restarting or any errors in the event logs, only a few warning network
issues though. So far so good for me...
 
You can send it to me..........Because I doubt if MS will send me a free
copy even though I too was a BETA tester.
This is the 2nd time I have read about a BETA tester getting a free copy of
Ultimate.Is it a Draw names out of the hat deal or is there a select group
of Beta Testers only who receive this freebie??
peter
 
120 GIG & 4gig ram

JW said:
Do you have 20GB of disk available in your WinXP partition to use to perform
the upgrade? Or if not in the WinXP partion do you have 15Gb in the XP
partition and 5GB available in another partition for the temp files used
during the upgrade?
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The only Beta testers that received free copies were the ones that actually
submitted bug reports direct to MS. A lot of use would have done this if we
they were going to do so instead of just the newsgroups to try and resolve
problems.
 
So I guess mine should be in the mail since I submitted at least 5 or 6 bug
reports to MS thru the Vista program....and its error reporting service as
well as the downloaded Problem Reportin Tool
peter
 
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