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May 19th 10, 03:47 PM
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XP Upgrade
I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process
finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks. 
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May 20th 10, 10:22 AM
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XP Upgrade
Hi Ed,
To upgrade from XP to Vista with an Upgrade disk, you must start from within a running XP installation, you cannot do it by booting to the Vista disk or by "showing" the installer an XP disk as a qualifier. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Ed Pyle" wrote in message ... I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.
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May 20th 10, 10:22 AM
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XP Upgrade
Hi Ed,
To upgrade from XP to Vista with an Upgrade disk, you must start from within a running XP installation, you cannot do it by booting to the Vista disk or by "showing" the installer an XP disk as a qualifier. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Ed Pyle" wrote in message ... I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.
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May 28th 10, 01:23 PM
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Why would you want to go from XP to Vista anyway??? XP is a much better OS.
I am just one of many people who have downgraded from Vista back to XP for the simple reason Vista sux................ IMHO "Ed Pyle" wrote in message ... I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.
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May 28th 10, 01:23 PM
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XP Upgrade
Why would you want to go from XP to Vista anyway??? XP is a much better OS. I am just one of many people who have downgraded from Vista back to XP for the simple reason Vista sux................ IMHO "Ed Pyle" wrote in message ... I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.
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