Upgrading to vista ultimate! HOW?

Question

I currently have a laptop that has vista home premium on it with alot of expensive software and alot of important files on it, I am going to upgrade to windows vista ultimate 32bit (the full retail version) just because it was given to me. How do i do this? I have norton ghost 12.0 and i made a shadow copy of my hardrive on an external hardrive so what would i do next? will installing the new OS erase all my programs and files on my laptop hardrive if so will i have to reinstall them from my shadow copy on my external hardrive? I was going to do a clean install of vista ultimate just so you know!

Answer 1

Upgrading will be fine and you will not lose any of your files. During the upgrade Vista Ultimate will place all of your data in a folder entitled windows old.

You are very fortunate to have been given Ultimate, mind you I am more than happy with Home Premium.

Hope this has been helpful.

HAVE FUN !

Answer 2

Well as far as I know since i fix some computers. A clean install will format your drive. you will loose everything. Your ghost drive is meant to replace your existing one incase of a failure. you cant just re install From your existing drive. You can though install if you have the disks again. I wouldnt do a Fresh install myself unless forced. You MIGHT be able to copy important files over i'm not familiar with norton ghost. I back up everything on DVD data disks and have plenty. If I ever crash everything is there.

Answer 3

When installing any Windows Vista on your computer, when it asks you what install you want to do, then click upgrade. Doing that will keep your existing files while upgrading the OS.

Answer 4

Instead of Ghost, use Acronis Migrate. Your setup is going to reinstall your old operating system.