Upgrade vista help

[powermax]

Hi all,

I have the vista home premium. The problem is; I want to upgrade my vista to ultimate edition. I have ultimate CD. So in order to install it what I have to do? because I don't want to loose any files, software/games in my pc.
so is it possible install ultimate instead of home premium without loosing anything? I tried in windows any time upgrade but its asking for buy on-line. I cant see any option for upgrade from CD. And also when I insert the the ultimate CD its display a window and ask for proceed to installation. I never proceed because I have doubt if I loose my expensive files,software/games.

please help
thanks.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello powermax, welcome to Vista forums.

The easiest way would be to move your files and games to an external HDD.

Have a look at this tutorial at the link below for a place to start ...

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89196-context-menu-add-copy-folder-move-folder.html

Also have a look at this ...

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99709-backup-complete-computer.html?ltr=B

Keep us informed!


Later Ted

 

[powermax]

Thanks for replay.
But that's not what I want. OK then forget about it.
I already begin my installation, but it's asking for clean install and its the problem.
there two option one is clean install and another is upgrade, but upgrade not working it says something missing. I have vista ultimate 32bit.
SO what's wrong. Why not its reinstalling the ultimate instead of home premium.
Need help please.

 

[Dwarf]

Hi powermax,

The advice that Ted gave about backing up your files and data to an external drive is sound practice when considering something as fundamental as upgrading your OS. As for your problem about clean vs upgrade install, did you start from within Vista? The upgrade is only available if you start from within Vista. Another possibility is that you have SP1 installed and your copy of the Vista disk doesn't include SP1. In this case, the only option would be to clean install as opposed to upgrade.
Dwarf