Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Trending News

Promoted
conradj213
Lv 7
conradj213 asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

Do upgrade versions of Vista allow clean installs?

I've looked high and low online and can't really find a clear answer. What I want to know is, does the Vista Upgrade DVD allow you to format your drive, wipe XP and do a clean install. I have no intention of doing an "in-place" upgrade of XP. I know there are several versions of Vista, let's just assume they are all the same when it comes to this one issue.

If it does... do you need your XP CDs for validation because I have no idea where they are and my laptop didn't even come with them... it has a restore partition...

2 Answers

Relevance
  • mysticman44
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Here is a page on from Microsoft about upgrading:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upg...

    so apparantly yes you can do a clean install, in fact in some instances it is required. It doesn't say here, but from past experience I would say that you would need your XP CD to use the upgrade.

  • jt114881
    1 decade ago

    Yes you can clean install and you should. No you do not need xp licenses.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.