Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate Peter Flannery 11/23/2008 1:01:01 PM Hello Everybody My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install windows please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with a 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I have is also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks & regards -- PF

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate Rob Norton <the_nortons[ at ]earthlink.net> 11/23/2008 1:44:07 PM Peter Flannery wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello Everybody > My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista > Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new > one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: > "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install windows > please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with a > 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I have is > also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks & regards Your laptop likely is preloaded with Vista SP1 and your ultimate upgrade disk was an original RTM version. An internet search may locate an SP1 upgrade iso that you could burn to disk.

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate pooch <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 11/23/2008 1:50:06 PM If you have the DVD, make sure that your Laptop is set to boot from DVD, insert the DVD and restart the Laptop. -- pooch

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate Charlie <charlie[ at ]thetuna.net> 11/23/2008 4:47:38 PM On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:44:07 -0500, Rob Norton <the_nortons[ at ]earthlink.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Peter Flannery wrote: >> Hello Everybody >> My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista >> Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new >> one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: >> "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install windows >> please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with a >> 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I have is >> also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks & regards > >Your laptop likely is preloaded with Vista SP1 and your ultimate upgrade >disk was an original RTM version. An internet search may locate an SP1 >upgrade iso that you could burn to disk. That shouldn't be a factor when changing versions.

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper[ at ]email.com> 11/23/2008 9:08:21 PM Ah ... yeah, it is, actually. You cannot upgrade an SP1 operating system using a non-SP1 install/upgrade disc. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper[ at ]gmail.com * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ "Charlie" <charlie[ at ]thetuna.net> wrote in message news:a82ji4lgi5aas5bpa6qjm8cn13gljbccgl[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:44:07 -0500, Rob Norton > <the_nortons[ at ]earthlink.net> wrote: > >>Peter Flannery wrote: >>> Hello Everybody >>> My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista >>> Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a >>> new >>> one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: >>> "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install >>> windows >>> please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded >>> with a >>> 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I >>> have is >>> also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks & regards >> >>Your laptop likely is preloaded with Vista SP1 and your ultimate upgrade >>disk was an original RTM version. An internet search may locate an SP1 >>upgrade iso that you could burn to disk. > > That shouldn't be a factor when changing versions.

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate "PvdG42" <pvdg42[ at ]toadstool.edu> 11/24/2008 2:34:02 AM "Peter Flannery" <black_adder[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:419D15DC-FD77-43F9-AA59-ACF936C20A99[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hello Everybody > My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista > Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new > one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: > "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install > windows > please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with > a > 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I have > is > also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks & regards > -- > PF One possibility to overcome your situation (and, I must admit that I'm not sure it will work in your case), is to look at the list of installed updates on the new computer, locate SP1 and uninstall it. YOUr Ultimate upgrade DVD should then work. Once you've upgraded, reinstall SP1.

Re: Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate mansrm81 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 11/24/2008 3:06:09 AM Or you can do a clean install with the upgrade disc just backup the files you want. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html > Hello Everybody > My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista > Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a > new > one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as > follows: > "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install > windows > please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded > with a > 32bit version of Home Premium and the Ultimate upgrade version that I > have is > also 32 bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks & regards > -- > PF -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep :D. Click on the scales. [image: http://www.vistax64.com/members/mansrm81-albums-asdf-picture192-untitled.jpg]