Vista Upgrade Problem

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Just note that if you buy a Vista upgrade as opposed to a full-blown copy of Vista, that it needs XP in order to perform the upgrade. And as part of the Vista's EULA you forfeit your rights to keep running XP as soon as you upgrade, so to leave XP running on a separate partition of your hard drive would be illegal as it violates their EULA. (Plus, you'll never be able to reinstall that copy of XP if you ever need to wipe the hard drive and start anew.)

http://digg.com/software/Vista_upgra...es_your_XP_key

The only legal way to dual boot XP and Vista is to purchase the full-blown copy of Vista and install that on a separate hard drive partition, unless you feel like installing Vista twice to work around this annoyance.

Here is a link that will take you to a site that will teach you how to "clean boot" vista on your Windows XP computer off of a partition. It is a great and tested way for you to run Vista and XP off of a computer which currently runs both.

Although windows asks you for your upgrade key, there is a way to partition your harddisk so you do not have to even inform the computer that you have XP installed. AKA: A loophole in the system.


Pavan.

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