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Old 04-01-2007   #3 (permalink)
Lilo Lentz


 
 

Re: Annoying product key problems

Hi
One question regarding installing VISTA again on same harddrive, but other
partition..
Will I then also have to CALL to be able to activate Vista again???

Lilo

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> skrev i meddelelsen
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> Call the telephone activation number and explain your situation. You will
> not need to purchase another copy of Vista.
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> "Dan Smith" <Dan Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC542A77-5933-4412-98A7-7CD2D8661A8A@microsoft.com...
>> Hello,
>> I recently bought Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit system and installed in
>> on
>> my 120 GB hard drive. After the installation was complete I did that
>> "rate my
>> system" program and my hard drive was a 4 whereas everything else was
>> 5.5.
>> This made me decide to buy a new hard drive. I purchased a 500 GB hard
>> drive
>> that was rather costly (but worth it ) which used a SATA connection
>> rather
>> than parallel. I connected the new drive and installed vista with ease. I
>> went to activate windows but it says that it is in use! I understand that
>> it
>> is on my other hard drive but I have scrapped that one in favour of my
>> new
>> one (logical don't you think?). It's not as if I am using the same
>> version of
>> windows on two computers, since I will not be using the other hard drive.
>> Could someone please give me some advice on what to do next, since I only
>> bought vista 3 weeks ago and it cost me £350 and I am not prepared to buy
>> a
>> new copy just because I upgraded my computer! Thank you for your help
>>

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