Yes, if Vista has already previously been activated, you will more than
likely have to call to activate again.
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"Lilo Lentz" <misslilo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:eSUOS%23JdHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> 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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