Hello Colin,
Thanks for doing this. Looks pretty good, a couple of points of clarity.
I didn't check Windows 2000, I only checked against Windows Vista and
Windows XP.
We need to clarfiy between 64-bit and 32-bit media with Upgrade Product
Keys.
If the Windows Vista Media is 32-bit and you enter an Upgrade Product key,
you have to be inside the existing OS to meet the compliance check. You
cannot boot to the DVD and install.
If the Windows Vista Media is 64-bit and you enter an Upgrade Product key
you can boot to the dvd, and if a qualifying OS is located on a local hard
drive, setup will allow you to proceed.
The disk configuration screen happens after the compliance check so you
should able to format the volume and setup should continue. ( I had
multiple blank volumes so I didn't format).
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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|>It may. Darrel didn't report that he did a reformat, but if the
compliance check is done and the legacy OS is not needed anymore then it
should work to reformat before starting the installation. The format tool
is available when you have dvd booted. It sounds to me like it could work
out like that. The kicker is that if you are running XP MCE and want to
upgrade to Vista Home Premium you will be told to start Setup from the
desktop since upgrade is enabled in that scenario according to the Upgrade
Matrix on Get Ready. Weird, eh?
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|> Does this mean that, in an example, if I am running XP Pro and want to
upgrade to Vista Home Premium, if I boot with the Vista DVD, that it will
see there is a qualifying XP installed on the C: drive (lets assume there
is only one partition on the drive and no second hard drive), that Vista
setup will allow me to reformat the drive and make a clean install (with
nothing left from the previous XP Pro install) of Vista on that drive?
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