Re: XP to Vista

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From: Paul Montgomery <nonnymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:30:57 -0500

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:13:43 +0100, "Gordon"
<gordonbparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you have an XP CD (as opposed to a Recovery disk) there's no need to
install XP first if you buy a Vista Upgrade version. All that happens is
that when you install Vista, you will be asked to insert the XP CD at an
appropriate time in order to verify that you have a qualifying OS for the
upgrade...

Nope. Not any more.

Gotta have the qualifying product installed. The installation using
the upgrade version is launched from within Windows.
.

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