Vista Tutorial - Vista Activation

I had to reinstall Vista. I already had
it activated. Now that I reinstalled it,
will the second activation fail ?

When I had Win XP, I had to call India.
and read them a bunch of numbers, and I
had to explain just what the heck I was
up to, in order to cause the activation to
fail.

Does Vista behave the same way ?
I installed it the first time less than
a month ago. Does the length of time
between installs have anything to do
with a failed activation ? I have the
exact same hardware for the second
install.

Please help me to understand about
the restrictions of Vista activation.

Thanks
Mike

Stop posting idiot. We;re tied of your mindless rantings. Read your answers.
"Mike" <mike@rocket.org> wrote in message
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>I had to reinstall Vista. I already had it activated. Now that I
>reinstalled it,
> will the second activation fail ?
>
> When I had Win XP, I had to call India.
> and read them a bunch of numbers, and I
> had to explain just what the heck I was up to, in order to cause the
> activation to
> fail.
> Does Vista behave the same way ?
> I installed it the first time less than
> a month ago. Does the length of time
> between installs have anything to do
> with a failed activation ? I have the exact same hardware for the second
> install.
> Please help me to understand about the restrictions of Vista activation.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>

I've had the same problem tried reactivating after new installed hard drives
and activation failed all I was doing was reinstalling after installing new
hardware and the activation and the Genuine Advantage proccess both fail.

Ended up calling Microsoft via chat support and they fixed me up with a new
key since the system said the old key was the wrong version.

I have an upgrade vista Ultimate so I got a new key everything seems to be
working.

I didn't have to pay because it was first issue problem only a few weeks old.
--
MikroXP, Beta Testing Fool & New Stuff Addict


"Mike" wrote:

> I had to reinstall Vista. I already had
> it activated. Now that I reinstalled it,
> will the second activation fail ?
>
> When I had Win XP, I had to call India.
> and read them a bunch of numbers, and I
> had to explain just what the heck I was
> up to, in order to cause the activation to
> fail.
>
> Does Vista behave the same way ?
> I installed it the first time less than
> a month ago. Does the length of time
> between installs have anything to do
> with a failed activation ? I have the
> exact same hardware for the second
> install.
>
> Please help me to understand about
> the restrictions of Vista activation.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>