Thread: Upgrade issue in vista

Hi. I have Windows XP in my laptop. Right now I am planning to install windows vista on my system .Can I upgrade from Windows XP to a 64-bit version of Windows Vista? If possible please give me proper solution to how to installed 64-bit version of vista.

If you have any edition of Windows XP, as well as the x64 edition, then you are suitable to upgrade to an edition of Windows Vista, with 64-bit. Though, if you are upgrading to a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, you should use the upgrade disk to perform a clean install of Windows, though you own Windows XP x64 edition - you cannot actually perform an upgrade.

In other words, owning a copy of Windows XP permits you to buy a discounted upgrade version of a 64-bit edition of Windows Vista, but you cannot actually use the 64-bit upgrade disk to perform an upgrade - you should clean install.