Have you tried a Win2k to Vista Business or Ultimate x86? How does that
work? Should be easy to do in a vm. What can you do if a second vhd is
available?

""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" <Darrellg@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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]
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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> |>From: "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com>
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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?
> |>"William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:%23KEaImRNHHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> |> 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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