Morning: I have yet another client who has a Dell Inspiron AMD dual core cpu ,1 gig of ram. Her son didn't register the XP that came on the computer, now it wont boot. I got the Upgrade Vista basic disk to come up going into bois and selecting boot from cd-rom. Will the above pinned method of doing a clean install still work??

hi,,, have a read of this
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi...grade_clean.asp
never tried it and would not like too,,,,, i wonder if you could clean install with a full vista disc using the upgrade product key ???

I'm going to try the fake out. My Vista disk is Ultimate version, the client's is Home Basic.

hi,,, i have a full edition of vista ultimate too,,, i do know that it carries all additions of vista and what it loads is determined by the product key,,,, so if its a basic key it will load basic,,, i have installed premium with my disc around 20 times now (well not my disc as such,,, i made a bootable flashdrive with it,,, saves the disc) but you know what i mean.
good luck.

Very interesting Figgis, I will take my Ultimate disk's to this clients home and if the first try does not work, I'll try my Vista disk,Thanks again. Alan

no probs
here's the link to setting up a 4gb flash drive to a bootable recovery drive with your disc,,,, saves use of the disc in case of damage and is way faster on the install of the os
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/c...-windows-vista/
good luck.

Well, I got the Basic to install, the trick of installing over the 1st, did not. I can't register the Basic upgrade,darn. I am studying how to call and register, anyone have the number, it's hard to Google? I want this customer happy. They want to buy one of my custom builds around Christmas.