I currently have XP Pro on my desktop box and I've been using my wife's
new Vista home Premium notebook and I'm thinking, can I buy the Vista
Home Premium upgrade and instal it on another partition or disk on my
box, or is it only been valid if installed over XP Pro which I don't
want to do? Is it possible to somehow tell Vista that I have a copy of
XP, like when I first installed XP home I had to insert my Win 98SE disk
first?
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bertieboy

Bertieboy, see if this helps
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp


"bertieboy" <mtg@rosbert.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ZN4FVMAfnchIFwwH@rosbert.freeserve.co.uk...
>I currently have XP Pro on my desktop box and I've been using my wife's new
>Vista home Premium notebook and I'm thinking, can I buy the Vista Home
>Premium upgrade and instal it on another partition or disk on my box, or is
>it only been valid if installed over XP Pro which I don't want to do? Is it
>possible to somehow tell Vista that I have a copy of XP, like when I first
>installed XP home I had to insert my Win 98SE disk first?
> --
> bertieboy

In message <uXIcXQC7IHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Rich Barry
<rbarry@socal.rr.com> writes
> Bertieboy, see if this helps
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp
>
>
>"bertieboy" <mtg@rosbert.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:ZN4FVMAfnchIFwwH@rosbert.freeserve.co.uk.. .
>>I currently have XP Pro on my desktop box and I've been using my wife's new
>>Vista home Premium notebook and I'm thinking, can I buy the Vista Home
>>Premium upgrade and instal it on another partition or disk on my box, or is
>>it only been valid if installed over XP Pro which I don't want to do? Is it
>>possible to somehow tell Vista that I have a copy of XP, like when I first
>>installed XP home I had to insert my Win 98SE disk first?
>> --
>> bertieboy
>
>
Thanks for that Rich, I think I've got the picture now, an interesting
read!
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bertieboy