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**rgongora** · 02-07-2008

I had the same issue come up on my Vista Ultimate 64 because I used to rebuild it often from scratch rather than restore the image. Each time I had to call MS and they would verify some info and have me activate it while i was on the phone.

Since then I started using the full system backup/restore built into Ultimate. This has saved time and phonecalls. You will probably have to call to get your software reactivated but if you do it on a fresh build and then Image it afterwards you should not hit any issues down the road if you want ot restore to a fresh build using the imaging tool.

02-07-2008	#2 (permalink)
rgongora Member	Re: Activation Problem I had the same issue come up on my Vista Ultimate 64 because I used to rebuild it often from scratch rather than restore the image. Each time I had to call MS and they would verify some info and have me activate it while i was on the phone. Since then I started using the full system backup/restore built into Ultimate. This has saved time and phonecalls. You will probably have to call to get your software reactivated but if you do it on a fresh build and then Image it afterwards you should not hit any issues down the road if you want ot restore to a fresh build using the imaging tool.