KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 Ok I bought a new PC and it came with Vista Home Premium. I have Vista Ultimate and it was installed on my old PC but I removed Vista from the old PC. Can I upgrade Home Premium with the Utimate DVD and will it activate without problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mircleman Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Yes it will I just did mine about 2 weeks ago. I have the 32/64 bit editions. gold disks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Yes, you can upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate without an issue. You may need to re-run Windows Update to get everything fully updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 ok guys thanks a lot, I'm going to give it a try :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 ok I'm in the installation window in "Which type of installation you want?" but it says the upgrade has been disabled. The only option available is the clean install option. What I'm doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrawn Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Did you start the install process from within Windows or at boot? I think you need to start it from Windows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 Did you start the install process from within Windows or at boot? I think you need to start it from Windows... at boot but I thought that maybe that was the problem, trying that from Windows now. EDIT: Yeah now I get the upgrade option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 ok I'm in the installation window in "Which type of installation you want?" but it says the upgrade has been disabled. The only option available is the clean install option. What I'm doing wrong? Have you booted off the Windows Vista DVD? If so, an upgrade needs to be run from within Windows itself. Also, you cannot upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit, you would need to perform a clean installation in that case. EDIT: Looks like i'm too slow today. Bah. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 The upgrade didn't work :/ I tried two times and when it finished it says that it could install some windows components or something like that and it restored the Home Premium version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Try uninstalling any anti virus software etc that you may have. Worst case scenario, you may wind up having to do a clean installation of Ultimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I though you have to use the "Vista Anytime Upgrade" to upgrade Vista Home Premium to ultimate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 I though you have to use the "Vista Anytime Upgrade" to upgrade Vista Home Premium to ultimate? No, you don't have to. In MSCONFIG, choose diagnostic startup, reboot, then try upgrading again. Also note that if you have an OEM version of Ultimate, it wont activate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 KoL, check out this thread - https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...=585198&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 No, you don't have to.In MSCONFIG, choose diagnostic startup, reboot, then try upgrading again. Also note that if you have an OEM version of Ultimate, it wont activate. Its retail version. I'm going to try that and Frank solution. KoL, check out this thread - https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...=585198&hl= "Windows could not configure one or more system components, to install Windows restart the computer and then restart6 the installation." Yep that is the message I get So you uncheck those and the upgrade work?? Yours was from Vista Home Basic to Home Premium?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 I did what Microsoft told Frank and it worked fine but now Vista dont want to activate. It says that is in use. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mircleman Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Im not understanding the issue here. I upgraded my home prem to vista ultimate 2 weeks ago. Threw the gold disk in 32 bit and it started asked me if i wanted to upgrade. Did a system check then asked me for the cd key from the disk boom done no issues. so I am not understanding now why it wont activate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevola Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 It's not letting him upgrade because he used the Ultimate disk already on an older PC. That copy of windows is now activated for that specific PC. It notices the hardware differences, and its not letting him activate it. I am in this exact same position, I splugred and bought Ultimate for my older pc, and then about 4 weeks later, ended up building a new one. I was so mad when i realized I had to purchase another whole copy. I dont even use that old pc anymore so it was such a big waste of money. ughhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Author Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 Wow the phone thing is bad, you cant understand what the machine is saying lol. At least the spanish one. Im not understanding the issue here. I upgraded my home prem to vista ultimate 2 weeks ago. Threw the gold disk in 32 bit and it started asked me if i wanted to upgrade. Did a system check then asked me for the cd key from the disk boom done no issues. so I am not understanding now why it wont activate. I have no idea, it should upgrade fine but it didn't. I did the same thing that Frank did and then I was able to upgrade. This is what I had to do. They had me log into my current install of Windows Vista and then go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features. The tech had me click on the "Turn Windows Features on or Off" on the left hand side of Programs and Features. In this window she had me expand Microsoft .NET Framework and uncheck XPS Viewer. She also had me uncheck Remote Differential Compression and Windows DFS Replication Service. Then I had to call Microsoft to activate my copy because it didn't want to activate online. I spent all day trying to upgrade this damn thing. :crazy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mircleman Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 wow what idiot came up with that. you install on an older pc and then try to put it on anew pc and it wont let you. thats unbelievable. and they wonder why people pirate. So what happens if say the old pc blows up and you get a new one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 wow what idiot came up with that. you install on an older pc and then try to put it on anew pc and it wont let you. thats unbelievable. and they wonder why people pirate. So what happens if say the old pc blows up and you get a new one? The same thing happened with Windows XP. If you activated it and then a week or so later you got a new PC and tried to activate it there it wouldn't work. You don't need to buy another copy; you just have to call the activations line and as long as you have the retail copy (not OEM) they will give you a activation code when you tell them you got a new PC. I have never done this with Vista or on the Spanish line but it was very easy to do on the English line and Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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