I have a dual boot machine, Win XP & 7, on separate drives. Since I purchased Sonor Studio 8.5, I've have had it on the XP drive. I can't find my 8.5 install disk and I want to install 8.5 on my Win 7 drive. I downloaded the 8.5 setup file from the "my products-downloads" section of my account. When I try to install the downloaded 8.5 setup, the ".cab" files extract then I get this message: "Cannnot locate the required version of the program on this system, please install the correct version of the program to use this patch." Is there a file, or something, that I can move from XP to 7 so I can install 8.5 onto my Win 7, so I can upgrade to a newer version of Sonor?
 
Thanks,
Johnny

Hi. I believe that SONAR 8 had to be installed before 8.5, as 8.5 was an update.
All the best.

AFAIK there is no full download version of SONAR 8.5. SONAR 8 must be installed prior to applying the 8.5 update.

And you do not have to install older SONAR to be able to upgrade to a newer version.

Sounds like you downloaded a patch instead of the full product installer.

You should not loose your disks. And in those days we all would either make clones of the disks or copy it to a hard drive. If you lost the disk, you have lost Sonar 8. 
Sonar Home studio is probably about the same level as Sonar 8 studio and is only $50. It will run on W7 as well. 
It's not a good idea to fall so far behind, it gets harder to have a proper running system when everything is outdated. 

8.5 was an odd release because I never upgraded to 8 and went straight to 8.5 from 7 so it should be a full installer.  
 
I have just double checked My Products and I definitely only have 8.5 in the list.  There is a setup file for 8.5 and upgrade to 8.5.1 and 8.5.2

I downloaded the Sonor 8.5 Studio set up file. So, I don't have to install a previous version of Sonor in order to upgrade it? The upgrade doesn't "load on top of" (for lack of a better term) a previous version? I just pay for the new software and it's a full version of say, Sonor Platinum?

You can keep older versions installed and they stay as completely different apps. I have 8.5, X3 Studio, Professional and Platinum all on the same computer. 
You do not need older versions to get the new version. 
I just never bothered to uninstall them and I keep 8.5 to get a few plug ins that are not on the new list. 
You should qualify for upgrade pricing. 
For me the store automatically figures out how much I would pay for any given version. 
You have to proceed to the checkout to get your best price. 
As example Sonar Professional shows as $199 but at my checkout I pay $119 Can. 
You can try the demo for free.  This is the best page to tell you how each version compares. 
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Versions#start
 
 

Thanks for the info everyone.