upgrading Vista

Hi you all!
I have a machine that came with a pre-installed Vista Home Premium, it`s on 64 bits and I have the chance to upgrade the OS to Vista Ultimate.
I got the disk [x64] but I didn’t waht to make the upgrade, saying that the “upgrade was disabled”…
I’ve tried the upgrading disk both ways: boot from it and running it from Vista Home Premium. Ho can I perform the upgrade?
I cannot do a “clean install” because the machine is a HP IQ526 and has some special drivers like TouchScreen and so on.
-> BUT if I will perform a CLEAN INSTALL previously backing up all drivers using Driver Genius Pro will help?
THANK YOU!
Answer #1
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png
Answer #2
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png
^^ not very useful for upgrading Vista home to Vista Ultimate
Are you booting from the disk, or running it from inside windows?
Answer #3
o0o0o
Misread that.
Don’t think you can upgrade from one version of Vista to another, can you?
Answer #4
o0o0o
Misread that.
Don't think you can upgrade from one version of Vista to another, can you?
they have the whole “anytime upgrade” thing, so i presume you can. never tired it though
Answer #5
So I will need a FRESH INSTALL? And what I gonna do with the rest of the missing drivers and the rest of the components?
EDITED:
Or do you suggest to do the “jump” to Win***s7? If so, which one, please?
Answer #6
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Answer #7
Grazie, !
Kindly as always!!!
Thank you!
Answer #8
you shouldn’t have a problem with the drivers. Most vista drivers will work on any other vista and in Win 7 as well