Urgent Vista Help - Please Reply

[benjiboy90]

Hi Guys, I have a laptop with windows XP Pro. I put Vista onto my laptop. I split the hard drive into 2 partitions and then installed vista on the blank partition I created. Im running both now, but I hear that Vista RC1 will expire sometime after christmas when the official release comes out. If I was to buy the upgrade version, would I be upgrading the XP or could I upgrade the Vista RC1? If It only allowed you to upgrade on Windows XP, does that mean everything I do on Vista wont be upgraded?

Please reply asap.
Thanks

 

[Dale Hubbard]

I think that if you buy an upgrade to Vista, it will recognise the partition when you boot from the CD and ask you all the right questions.

Hi from South Devon

 

[benjiboy90]

Oh rite... I was thinking of removing XP from my hard drive and just having Vista.... but i wanted to still buy the upgrade version and was just wandering if I could use the upgrade version on RC1.

Hi from Moretonhampstead, 30 mins from exeter

 

[leo]

Vista expires in june and no you cannot upgrade you will need to do a fresh installation.

 

[benjiboy90]

If upgrading from XP, will the XP Licence expire afterwards?

 

[jberryhill]

You intentionally installed Microsoft software on a computer?

Wow.

I thought it was a virus.

 

[jberryhill]

You intentionally installed Microsoft software on a computer?

Wow.

I thought it was a virus.

 

[benjiboy90]

you obviously don't like microsoft?