Obviously he used the only option available, custom. You know this and I
know this. A lot of users will do a custom install but think that because
they bought an upgrade edition that's what they did. I see little point in
arguing with them if nothing went wrong. After a while it gets old
explaining over and over and over that upgrade editions and upgrade options
are different things. I wish MS used some different terminology. From MS's
viewpoint, any migration from one OS to another is an upgrade. They talk
about upgrades-in-place when they mean upgrading the bits. No wonder we get
stuck explaining things in layman's terms. I'm just grousing, Rock.

"Rock" <rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:ed85U%23nRHHA.1228@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "A" wrote
>
>>I upgraded XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. Using it to write this message
>>right now.
>>
>> "Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
>> news:5527EDAC-A946-4303-8F58-9F962EC8C943@microsoft.com...
>>> It may not be news for some folks around here but it really gets my goat
>>> when I go to the store and buy the Vista Home Premium edition upgrade
>>> because the box says something like needs windows 2k, or xp or vista to
>>> use this edition.
>>>
>>> Good enough, I have XP Pro on my computer so I buy it only to find out
>>> later that vista tells me you have the wrong edition, if you want to
>>> upgrade xp pro to vista then you need the vista business edition, not
>>> the home premium edition.
>>> Of course it gave me the option to do a fresh install (and I did) but
>>> that was NOT what *I* wanted to do.
>>>
>>> Had I wanted the business edition of vista then I would have bought
>>> that, but I didn't want that.
>>>
>>> Well......
>>>
>>> Back to reinstalling everything.
>
> VHP cannot do an in place upgrade over XP Pro. You can install VHP using
> the upgrade edition with XP Pro installed as the qualifying OS, but it
> will only do a custom install. What the OP was upset about is that it
> will not do an in place upgrade, migrating programs and data. Be careful
> about word usage. Eligibility to use an upgrade edition does not mean
> that upgrade edition can do an in place upgrade. It depends on which
> versions are the qualifying OS and the Vista upgrade.
>
> --
> Rock [MVP - User/Shell]