Can Upgrade From Vista Home Premium To Windows 7 Professional

Jul 20, 2012

Can I upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional? I have a disk with W 7 P on it. I am using a 32 bit PC.

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Upgrade From Windows 7 Home Premium To Professional?

May 5, 2011

I have a new laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I bought Windows 7 Professional Upgrade from download and the backup disc.

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Dec 21, 2011

I bought Windows 7 Professional and installed it on my computer. Recently, that computer died unexpectedly and I bought a new one that came with Windows 7 Home Premium installed on it. Since getting a new computer was unexpected, there were things I needed to get installed right away, so I just started installing it on the version of the OS that was already installed on the new PC. Now that I have a moment to go back and upgrade it to 7 Pro to take advantage of the features I want/need, this is appearing to not be an option, or at least not an easy one. The only options I'm seeing are to do a full reinstall or to do a Windows Anytime Upgrade which requires a separate license key. I have enough software installed now I really don't want to have to reinstall the entire machine again. Plus there were some applications that came for "free" on the new PC that I'd like to keep, but reinstalling would mean that keeping those apps also was not an option. And it seems stupid that I'd have to buy an upgrade when key when I have a full version of what I want to go to. Is my full version DVD of 7 Pro a paper weight now?

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Upgrade From Windows 7 Home Premium To Professional 64 Bits?

Jun 22, 2011

Just wondering if i need to do a clean install if upgrading from 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional 64 bits? Or am i able to just upgrade? Will it affect the current softwares on my PC and do i need to reinstall them?

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Dec 13, 2011

I currently have windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition on my desktop. I get a copy of windows 7 professional 64 bit disc with legal key from my university for a student special. How can I upgrade? I was redirected to windows anytime upgrade during the installation. But my windows 7 professional x64 product key was not accepted there. I already have lots applications installed so I don't want to do a clean install.

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Oct 29, 2009

looking for ideas on how to fix this problem.

while installing 7 H.P. it gets to completing installation then freezes up after computer reboots a warning message appears stating windows 7 has failed to install and resume after reboot, and then the same warning message appears.

I tried the roll back installation option and a message flashes on and off to quickly to read.
and Vista will not come up to start over.

any Ideas on what to Do?

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Oct 13, 2009

I want to upgrade my Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 but my install CD is for Professional. Will my computer know what to do and just install the 7 Home Premium version?

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Vista Home Premium 32 Bit Upgrade To Windows 7 X64

Jul 22, 2009

I have a laptop with vista home premium 32 bit.. (OEM)..No install disk But can make one.I was going to install it on pc. I have ordered an upgrade disk for windows 7 x64 professional.. I was wanting to put it on my pc. It is running Windows 7600-16384 at the moment. From what I see it seems I won't be able to upgrade because:

1. Vista home premium to Windows professional won't work.

2. You can't upgrade with windows 7600-16384 to RTM

3. Not sure about going from 32 bit to 64 bit.

I am correct in my thinking??? If so I may have to cancel my upgrade buy from Newegg..Or change it somehow.

Would I be able to do clean install (RTM) on the pc with 7600-16384 on there????

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Upgrade From Vista Home Premium To Windows 7 Pro

Dec 7, 2009

I've been researching online that there is ONLY one way of going to from version to version when upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7. For example, Vista Home Premium to 7 Home Premium. You technically (In Microsoft's eyes) can't go from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional. People bought the $30 Student 7 Professional from DR when it was available, and had Vista Home Premium on their laptop.

Mistake? I don't think so. We are also assuming that you have a legitimate copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional Upgrade. We also assume no liability for any damages or data loss this may occur from doing my tutorial..

First off we need things done before we can do the upgrades. (Yes Upgrades).

1. Backup everything you need saved (Make an image with Acronis or any backup program)

2. Have a copy of Windows 7 (Any edition works, I'll tell you why later)

3. Have a quite some time to do this (Upgrades took a total of probably half a day)

Assuming you did the first 3 steps continue....

So you have a DVD copy or image of Windows 7. Extract the image or copy the disc to a folder on the HD of the computer you are upgrading. We are going to be going from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium as this is the only way we can do it (THANKS MICROSOFT).

View the extracted dvd/image on your HD. You will see a Sources folder, and you will see a ei.cfg. This can be edited with Wordpad or notepad, either one will do fine. Read more at the forum...

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Use The Windows 7 Professional Student Upgrade To Upgrade From Windows 7 Home Premium?

Aug 26, 2011

can i use the windows 7 professional student upgrade to upgrade from windows 7 home premium?

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Vista Business To Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade

Mar 20, 2010

My wife has a toshiba laptop with legal copy Vista Business OEM on it, And would like to get Windows 7 home premium.If she gets the upgrade version can we just do a clean install or am i going to get in all sorts of problems? On my Desktop i just installed the upgrade on a clean hdd and had no problems but i did have the number for vista home premium.Can someone say on this forum just buy the upgrade and you have no problems or do i have get the professional or ultimate upgrade?

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Upgrade From Vista To Windows 7 Home Premium Not Successful

Aug 27, 2010

I'm having a problem in upgrading my vista home premium operation system to windows 7 home premium but i receive an error message. It says:

"The upgrade was not successful. Your previous version of windows is being restored. Do not restart your computer during this time".

Then nothing happen, by the way I cant make clean install for windows 7 because I need all of the files and documents in there....

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In-place Upgrade From Vista Home Premium To Windows 7 Pro?

Apr 3, 2011

I'm installing this for a friend and she bought a Windows 7 Pro from digital river. She's using Vista 32bit home premium, and it won't let me do an in-place upgrade. She has a lot of programs and I don't wish to re-install one by one, especially when they're programs in Japanese.

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Cant Upgrade From Vista Home Premium To 7 Home Premium

Oct 22, 2009

I successfully bought the upgrade version of Windows 7 Home Premium N, downloaded and extracted it and now I want to install it.

When I choose UPDATE in the intallation dialog it tells me that I cannot upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium ???

Every website from Windows and other people tells me that it IS possible and even the Windows 7 Update Advisor told me that I should not encounter any problems upgrading.

Has anyone of you yet encountered upgrading problems of compatible Vista/7 versions?

Or any other idea what I can do to solve the problem?!

I know that I can make a clean intall of 7, but this would be a pain..

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Upgrade From Vista Home Premium

Oct 28, 2009

It said it couldn't upgrade from my Vista Home Premium and had to do a custom install clean on top of Vista. I have not gone any farther than to see the installation finished and I see that it saved my Vista files in Windows.old.

I sure thought Win & would upgrade from Vista. Now I have to reinstall all my apps again. And if I'm going to do that anyway I might just as well install the 64 bit version instead of the 32 bit I installed.

Is this best?

I have MS Office 2007 as well to reinstall. Does it work under 64 bit Win 7?

Is this what others have seen?

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May 6, 2009

I downloaded the 64bit release candidate yesterday and tried the upgrade from Vista Home Premium SP1 64bit. Everything checked out fine and the upgrade started... when the last stage is around 66% complete I get the message:

Werfault.exe application error, the instruction at 0x76B93892 reference memory at 0x00000000, the memory could not be read.

The installation program rolled back, which was very nice! I made a few changes and tried it another couple of times with the same result.

My system has an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, AMD 9850 X4 cpu, 4GB memory, EVGA GTX 295, two Maxtor hard drives - 300GB and 500GB, 2 DVD drives, etc.

Anyone have any suggestions other than a clean install? I had tried the Win 7 beta version with a clean install and that had installed but that was all I did with it.

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Oct 10, 2011

I bought a dell XPS 420 64bit two years ago and a year later upgraded to windows 7 64bit (upgrade) . The last two years my hard drive has frozen and this summer required an additional hard drive. With some difficulty, I was able to reinstall the windows 7 upgrade witch had come in a box with no code numbers). I now have received on my computer notices from Microsoft that my use of windows will be discontinued in 30 days if I can not provide my code numbers! What do I do?

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Oct 22, 2009

I had a fully activated and legal copy of Windows Vista running on my computer 3 months ago. I formatted my disk to install Windows 7, thinking I will activate with the upgrade key I bought.

How do I upgrade now?

Please tell me there is way to do it from within Windows 7. I have installed all the programs I want and have it running exactly the way I want it.

Don't tell me I need to clean install Win 7 again?

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Mar 11, 2010

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Jan 15, 2013

I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional.My question is this, if I buy a new Windows 7 Pro from a store would itcontain an ANYTIME UPGRADE KEY? I'd like to use this method of upgrade so that I wouldn't have todo all the hassle of removing the old OS and installing the new one.

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Can Upgrade From Windows 7 Home Premium To Windows 7 Professional?

Oct 1, 2011

can you upgrade from windows 7 home premium to windows 7 professional using windows 7 profession full version?I am wondering if when I drop the cd in of Windows 7 Professional, if it will offer me the option to upgrade from Home Prem 7 or just offer/start a full install and overwrite everything I've installed?

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Vista Business To Win7 Home Premium Upgrade

Dec 7, 2009

I am currently using Vista Business and want to install Windows 7 Home Premium.

Upgrade Advisor does not show Home Premium as an upgrade but I don't need anything more than that and don't want to pay the full price for what is basically a downgrade.

It doesn't make sense that I would have to pay for a full version of Home Premium when I already have a Vista Business version.

Does anyone have an answer to this problem.

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Oct 15, 2009

Still awaiting my pre ordered Windows 7

For now i think i will try to upgrade from my Vista 64 bits home premium (working well) to Windows 7 home premium 64 bits because i don't want to reinstall all my softs

But if after it seems to have problem with upgrade can i use the same Dvd and try an clean install on my first installation??

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Jan 31, 2012

I have windows 7 pro and have just purchased a pc with windows home premium, can the license from home premium be used to load windows 7 pro

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Jan 31, 2012

I have windows 7 pro and have just purchased a pc with windows home premium, can the license from home premium be used to load windows 7 pro?

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Oct 6, 2012

I just did a clean install of Win 7 Home and everything went smoothly but I have 32 gigs installed and it shows 32 but says only 16 are available. I am told this is directly because of a limitation in Win 7 home. so I have two questions:

1) is their anyway to modify Win 7 home so I can access all 32 gigs? 2) if I use an anytime upgrade to Win 7 pro will there be any issues? I have read that upgrades sometimes have unpredictable results, will that be likely even though I have a clean install? so far the only software loaded is a handful of drivers for the hardware.

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Jul 25, 2011

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Sep 26, 2010

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Downgrade: Change Windows 7 Ultimate To Home Premium Or Professional

Oct 10, 2009

If you have installed a preview version of Windows 7 Ultimate (e.g. beta, release candidate build 7100 or RTM build 7600) and want to install a cheaper version of Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional the installation is normally refused.

But with change of a registry key whilst installation you can fake a minor version - so you can install Home Premium or Professional over existing Windows 7 Ultimate.

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Feb 11, 2011

The institution has an arrangement with MS to download one copy of Windows Professional to each student. The school IT folks tell me I have to go into the boot menu (f2) and boot from the DVD containing the school's licensed Windows Professional copy. There is no "product key" that I can find, unless it is somewhere on the DVD embedded in another file.

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