Can I upgrade?

Hi

My notebook came with Home Basic. I want to upgrade it to home premium. (edit: its vista)

I already have a Home Premium installer DVD and a license code. So that said, not an "Anytime upgrade" disc or code, but a full retail one. The one that comes with a box.

I want to *upgrade* keeping all settings drivers programs etc in place. Just like I could with anytime upgrade.


I thought of hot-running the installer (by opening it inside windows, not booting from it) and using upgrade in such a way as I would upgrade OS.

Would that work? Would it keep my stuff?



Note: I have image backup so dont worry its not your problem if I lose something I have backed up everything.

According to several posts I've seen, you can use your retail Windows 7 Home Premium key to do an Anytime Upgrade.

See here for one instance of this: How to use a retail Windows 7 Professional license key to upgrade an installed Windows 7 Home Premium machine - Super User

It's Home Premium to Pro but Home Basic to Home Premium SHOULD be the same.

Try it, nothing to lose.

Click START and and type Windows Anytime Upgrade and press Enter.
Select Enter an Upgrade Key.

Doing what you describe is called a Repair Install. It will leave your data intact unless something goes badly wrong, but you will have to reinstall some software, specifically anti-virus and MS Office. Not sure what else will be affected.

I would not even consider doing an upgrade from Vista.

Clean Install Windows 7