can t upgrade winxp pro sp2

Hi when I try to upgrade to Vista Beta2 I get an message that the upgrade feature is disable and I'm only allowed to do a clean install. Thought you were allowed to do an upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff H

Which edition of Vista are you trying to install? You cannot update from XP Pro SP2 to Vista x64.
"Jeff H" wrote in message

Hi when I try to upgrade to Vista Beta2 I get an message that the upgrade feature is disable and I'm only allowed to do a clean install. Thought you were allowed to do an upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff H

Also, the upgrade is only available when you start Windows first and then insert the Vista dvd at the desktop.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Which edition of Vista are you trying to install? You cannot update from XP Pro SP2 to Vista x64.
"Jeff H" wrote in message Hi when I try to upgrade to Vista Beta2 I get an message that the upgrade feature is disable and I'm only allowed to do a clean install. Thought you were allowed to do an upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff H

Also the upgrade button is unavailable if you don't have the NTFS file system on the XPPro partition. That problem was easily solved, of course, by converting from FAT32 to NTFS and restarting the install. I had used Partition Magic to create all FAT32 system partitions when XP first appeared, wanting to be able to access XP system files using dual-booted Windows Millennium in the event XP crashed or wouldn't boot. -- Please respond to the group and also directly to me after removing the x''s from my email address below. Max Heisenberg bxonxesixnger7x@earthlink.net

"Jeff H" wrote:

Hi when I try to upgrade to Vista Beta2 I get an message that the upgrade feature is disable and I'm only allowed to do a clean install. Thought you were allowed to do an upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff H