You can select Activate by Phone, and give Microsoft a call and they will
get you activated and back up and running. Basically, it shows that it is
already in use because you had it installed and activated previously.
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Dustin Harper
dharper@xxxxxx
http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page
"Robert" <Robert@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:72285B24-06AA-4CB7-A57B-9A69B5D003E2@xxxxxx
Quote:
>I bought windows vista ultimate in may of 2007 to upgrade from XP, it ran
> fine until feb 2008, when my graphics card failed and i thought my
> windows
> messed up, causing me to erase windows, so i had to take it to Data
> Doctors
> to get XP back on so i could upgrade to Vista, well now its not letting me
> activate my windows because my product key is already in use and im using
> the
> same key from my Ultimate box!