Vista Home Prem to Win7 Pro Upgrade

[kevh]

Hi

 

Just a quickie , is it possible to go from Vista Home Premium to Win7 Professional Upgrade Version easily .

 

Reason being Pro is cheapest version software for students sell.;)

 

Cheers Kev :cool:

[PseFrank]

Not exactly sure myself, but if you follow the link below you can download a document from microsoft that should help answer your question.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E170EBA1-5BAB-401F-BBF5-00F0EE7FE0FB&displaylang=en

[kevh]

Supported Upgrade Scenarios

 

 

 

From Windows Vista (SP1, SP2)

Upgrade to Windows 7

 

Home Premium to Home Premium, Ultimate

 

 

 

 

From Windows 7

Repair-In-Place Upgrade to Windows 7

Home Premium to Home Premium

 

 

From Windows 7

Anytime Upgrade to Windows 7

Home Premium to Professional, Ultimate

 

 

Thanks for reply , just not sure what Anytime upgrade means?? as this is the only one which shows Vista Home Prem to Win 7Pro.

 

Cheers Kev:cool:

Edited August 10, 2010 by kevh

[kevh]

Hi

 

Thanks for replies.

 

After a little research it seems that an inplace upgrade is not possible where you keep all your files , but a custom install is fine as long as you have a liscensed copy of Vista already installed on the Pc and dont mind backing up everything and reinstalling all progs.

 

If someone could confirm the above findings before i become the Guinea pig that would be great !! :)

 

Cheers Kev :cool:

[Armageddon]

I did a upgrade from Vista home premium to Win 7 ultimate but it was the RC1 version of Win 7 and kept all my files I don't know if that makes I difference but I very much doubt it , but also unless you have a lot to back up i'd recommend the clean install anyway , and good luck with Win 7 Kev am sure you love it ( I have it on all my systems)

[kevh]

Thanks Arm

 

For some bizzarre reason inplace upgrade is available to go to Win7 HP or Ult but not Pro :confused:

 

I am very happy with custom/clean install just was worried whether that would work off of Upgrade disk :)

 

Cheers Kev :cool:

[Armageddon]

Kev have a look at the bottom of the page http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-considerations.aspx

[kevh]

Nice one , hadnt found that particular page that clears it up for definate :)

 

Cheers Kev :cool:

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Kev, again relevant but only slightly ha ha,

I recently bought a new machine with Windows7 home premium pre installed, but wanted the benefits of Pro, I bought in store at the same time the upgrade key, this allows you to download and install the upgrade to Pro from the Microsoft website.

In other words, you pays your money, and get a fancy box with nothing more than a piece of paper in it. However it is the numbers and letters code printed on said paper that matters.

Hope that helps.

Nev.