Vista Upgrade

antuk

Hi all,

I wonder if someone can help me, i have bought a new sony laptop that has Vista Home Premium Edition installed, this doesnt contain some of the features i need so i want to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, i have the MSDN edition so would like to upgrade to that one.

However sony have not provided any software cds and just a recovery partition so if i reformat to install vista ultimate ill lose all their software, can anyone advice the best way for an upgrade rather than a re-install (dont want to use the Windows Anytime upgrade as i already have a copy of Vista Ultimate)

Thanks

Ant

banger9365

you will needs drivers first for your hardware and if you are using msdn you know that ??
Vista Home Premium to vista ultimate are you going to us the stuff in ultimate problely not stick with Vista Home Premium.
it just like xp home and xp pro ,home is fine for home uses no need for pro

antuk

The problem is i dont wanna do it just for the sake of it, i need the offline file and EFS stuff which isnt in vista home, hence the need to switch to ultimate....

Conor_3

With the Anytime Upgrade, you have to re-install the original OS you upgraded from and then do the Upgrade again should you need to do a complete re-install.

There should be a utility on the laptop somewhere to create a set of recovery disks. If not, go to the Support section on Sony's website and see if it's there as a download.