"Rock" wrote:



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> I'm not sure what this "Premium DVD's upgrade to Ultimate plan" is. Do you
> mean the Anytime upgrade? If so you should think twice about that. There
> are some restrictions on the Anytime Upgrade license that don't exist on the
> regular upgrade license. I believe you can only transfer it to a new device
> once, whereas the retail upgrade can be moved as many times as you want as
> long as it's only on one device at at time.
>
> It would be better I think to shop for the lowest price you can get for an
> ultimate upgrade. In that box will be the DVDs for both x86 and x64.
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> > 2. In the mean time acquire a Ultimate 64 bit DVD for the new computer (do
> > I
> > need to and how do I do that?) so I'm ready.[/color]
>
> See above.
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> > 3. In about 6 months backup HD to USB, un-install (how do you do this)
> > Ultimate 32 bit, and take apart system.[/color]
>
> Sure backup the data and even better use a drive imaging system such as
> Acronis True Image Home v. 10 to image the old system, but also use Windows
> Easy Transfer (WET) to save data and settings on the USB drive, then after
> Vista is reinstalled and the apps installed use WET to bring back the data
> and settings.
>
> To uninstall an OS you format the drive. Any one of a number of ways to do
> that.
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> > 4. Build new Core Duo and install complete USB backup and then upgrade
> > Ultimate 32 bit to Ultimate 64 bit.[/color]
>
> When you say "install complete USB backup" do you mean restore an image?
> I'm not sure if you will be able to restore an image of Vista to a new drive
> on a system with a new board and CPU, and have it boot. You might have to
> start the installation process / upgrade over.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell][/color]
Yes I was talking about the Anytime upgrade. Did not know it was
restricted. I'm not about to go and buy a new version of Ultimate for $250
and throw the $150 Premium upgrade in the trash. That would be $400 to
upgrade from XP to Ultimate. If that is my only option to do what I need
then it looks like I'm just stuck. Guess I will have to revert back to XP or
hope and pry that noting happens to my HD until someone (Ghost) comes out
with a backup program that will do the whole HD and restore from boot.

I can't believe that MS doesn't offer a retail type upgrade from Premium to
Ultimate 32 bit/64 bit. This is very disappointing.