Vista Upgrade Problem

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I tried to install Vista over my XP, however, the "Upgrade" selection is
grayed out. I removed Office 2007 Beta2 and still had the issue. I don't
want to install another OS, but rather upgrade the XP that I have. I used
the advisor and had no issues with my machine's compatibility.
 
The setup screen that has the upgrade option on it should display the reason
that upgrade is not available.
 
markb said:
I tried to install Vista over my XP, however, the "Upgrade" selection is
grayed out. I removed Office 2007 Beta2 and still had the issue. I don't
want to install another OS, but rather upgrade the XP that I have. I used
the advisor and had no issues with my machine's compatibility.
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If you are booting the DVD, then upgrade is not available. You must run the
Setup program from within XP
 
You do know that if you upgrade to Vista over XP and you deside you want XP
back, the only way to get XP back is to format your Hdd. If you did not
backup your files you will loose everything.
 
If the drive that Xp is installed on is formated as Fat32 the upgrade option
is greyed out. Use a program like Partition Magic to convert it to NTFS and
the upgrade option will be there.
 
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