upgrade to VISTA Ultimate after installation of the Home Basic

I had a hard drive crash and when I did the clean install I use the recovery disc for Vista EDITION family Basic.  I now have the recovery disc for VISTA Ultimate. The TWO sets of disks are OEM Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad 32 bit system. It is a long shot. Is it possible to upgrade to Ultimate without losing all my installed programs and data? In addition, Lenovo has no clue! Thankx in advance. Phil

Hello

recovery disks normally do a clean install, wipe the hard drive clean during the process

you need a system of operating vista runing to do an upgrade that will not make a recovery disk

and recovery disks are related to the particular brand and model number

they are not interchangeable

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