Do I Need To Reinstall Vista To Upgrade To 7 Using The Vista Key?
I have currently installed ONLY XP Pro. I used to have Vista Premium installed on a separate partition, But I uninstalled that. I purchased Windows 7 Upgrade disk.
Here's the question, Do I need to reinstall Vista to upgrade to 7 using the Vista key?
View Replies (Posted: 10-07-2009)
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