Paula, you should get the option to do an inplace upgrade from Home Premium
to Ultimate, if you start the install from the desktop.
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"paula" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Oh that's good news.
> Thank you Bruce for replying.
> If I may ask another question...when I go to install the uninstalled
> version of Ultimate onto the laptop that has Home Premium on it, can I
> just install over the top or is there another procedure that needs to be
> taken for this installation to occur?
> thanks again.
> paula
>
> "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
> news:OYhDeFUpHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> paula wrote:
>>> I buy a new computer with Vista Ultimate on it.
>>> My old computer is a dual boot with XP Pro and a boxed retail version of
>>> Vista Ultimate on a second hard drive.
>>> I also have a laptop with Vista Home Premium.
>>> Since my new computer has Ultimate on it can I take the Ultimate off the
>>> old computer and install it on the laptop which is currently running
>>> Home Premium?
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If so, how would I go about doing that?
>>
>> The normal way to uninstall any operating system is to format the hard
>> drive or partition on which it's installed.
>>
>>> Would I have to call Microsoft since the key has already been installed
>>> on the old computer? Would they let me do that?
>>
>>
>> If you can't activate via the Internet because it's been less than 120
>> days since you first activated Vista, simply follow the on-screen
>> instructions to activate via telephone. As long as you have a retail
>> license, there's nothing to stop you from transfering it as many times as
>> you like, just so long as it's only installed on one computer at a time.
>>
>>
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