Yet Another Upgrading to Vista Question

I am running Windows XP Pro and I know you can't upgrade from XP Pro to Home
Premium because of functionality issues. The question is can I buy the
upgrade Vista Home Premium and do a clean install on the XP Pro machine?

Not supposed to, but it can be done.

Look here:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932


Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com



Charlie wrote:
> I am running Windows XP Pro and I know you can't upgrade from XP Pro to Home
> Premium because of functionality issues. The question is can I buy the
> upgrade Vista Home Premium and do a clean install on the XP Pro machine?
>
>

Charlie wrote:
> I am running Windows XP Pro and I know you can't upgrade from XP Pro to
> Home Premium because of functionality issues. The question is can I buy
> the upgrade Vista Home Premium and do a clean install on the XP Pro
> machine?

Yes you can. You'll still need XP installed to start the installation from.
Once it is started your only option will be to do a custom install, rather
than the in-place upgrade that would be available if you were going from XP
Pro to Vista Business.
--
Tom Porterfield

Why isn't he supposed to? There is nothing wrong with doing that at all.
He said he knew he needed to do a clean (custom) install. That is the only
limitation of "downgrading." But there is absolutely nothing wrong in doing
it.

"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
news:45C101CD.6020101@vistarip.com...
> Not supposed to, but it can be done.
>
> Look here:
> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932
>
>
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
>
> Charlie wrote:
>> I am running Windows XP Pro and I know you can't upgrade from XP Pro to
>> Home Premium because of functionality issues. The question is can I buy
>> the upgrade Vista Home Premium and do a clean install on the XP Pro
>> machine?