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Re: Does a Vista Upgrade kill the XP product key?
If you have the XP Product Key and if is valid then there should be no problem whatsoever to do a re-installation of XP
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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:uoDio5KTHHA.496@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Ok, question:
>
> And, please, I would like to only receive answers from people who have
> actually done this; not from those who THINK that they know the answer.
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> If you install a Vista upgrade copy, starting from a copy of XP, does
> the installation of the Vista upgrade cause the Microsoft servers to
> invalidate (for the purposes of future product activation and WGA
> checks) the Windows XP product key which the upgrade is being installed
> over? e.g. that product key will not be capable of future activations
> (on the same machine), and will fail WGA checks?
>
> If so, how would you do a reinstallation in the future, since before
> reinstalling Vista (say if the hard drive dies), you are supposed to
> first reinstall AND ACTIVATE the old copy of XP.
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