Collin,

Con you please let us know the results of your test.

It will be some time before I have an upgrade version. I do mostly new
systems now.

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Richard Urban
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"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
news:A2B05A93-E0AF-4923-AB00-31612C24FD97@microsoft.com...
> Yes. But another poster commented on an activation issue and I will not
> have an upgrade edition pk until tommorow to test against. I have a some
> virtual machines set up for all sorts of upgrade edition scenarios.
>
> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%236qTd8URHHA.3444@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>>> You cannot use an upgrade edition to flatten the system and start all
>>> over. You need XP to be installed and activated before running Vista
>>> Setup. You do not need updates after SP2. Only a full edition of Vista
>>> can install Vista the way you are trying to do. Vista does not verigy
>>> XP
>>> via a shiny media chedk. Sorry.
>>
>> Colin, have you seen this -
>> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932
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>> Tom Porterfield
>