Vista Tutorial - Incorrect Product Key on my Official Microsoft Product Key Sheet

Hi, I have just received my Vista DVD directly from Microsoft. I have gone to
install it and it asked me if I wanted to update from the internet, which I
allowed it to do. It then asked me to enter in the Product Key which it then
told me was incorrect! But I have double-checked my typing and it is exactly
as printed on the sheet. Does anyone know what is going wrong? And does
anyone know how to fix it? I can supply a scan of the sheet if anyone is
interested.

My disc hasn't even arrived, I ended up downloading.
have you made sure O is not zero and vica versa?
if it helps I have 5 sets of numbers/letters divided in my key (check to
make sure you have this)

"MikeAtFormwise" wrote:

> Hi, I have just received my Vista DVD directly from Microsoft. I have gone to
> install it and it asked me if I wanted to update from the internet, which I
> allowed it to do. It then asked me to enter in the Product Key which it then
> told me was incorrect! But I have double-checked my typing and it is exactly
> as printed on the sheet. Does anyone know what is going wrong? And does
> anyone know how to fix it? I can supply a scan of the sheet if anyone is
> interested.

Hi, I had been following the instructions - Stupid of me I suppose. What I
initially did was place the disc into the drive while running XP and tried to
install it while still under XP. When I rebooted and installed from scratch
the code was accepted.

"pippin" wrote:

> My disc hasn't even arrived, I ended up downloading.
> have you made sure O is not zero and vica versa?
> if it helps I have 5 sets of numbers/letters divided in my key (check to
> make sure you have this)
>
> "MikeAtFormwise" wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have just received my Vista DVD directly from Microsoft. I have gone to
> > install it and it asked me if I wanted to update from the internet, which I
> > allowed it to do. It then asked me to enter in the Product Key which it then
> > told me was incorrect! But I have double-checked my typing and it is exactly
> > as printed on the sheet. Does anyone know what is going wrong? And does
> > anyone know how to fix it? I can supply a scan of the sheet if anyone is
> > interested.

The key works just the same whether you install from the XP desktop or by
booting from the dvd. Likely there was a simple typo.

"MikeAtFormwise" <mradford@orange.net> wrote in message
news:2677D45F-1D59-49E0-BE0B-FCA494270B92@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I had been following the instructions - Stupid of me I suppose. What I
> initially did was place the disc into the drive while running XP and tried
> to
> install it while still under XP. When I rebooted and installed from
> scratch
> the code was accepted.
>
> "pippin" wrote:
>
>> My disc hasn't even arrived, I ended up downloading.
>> have you made sure O is not zero and vica versa?
>> if it helps I have 5 sets of numbers/letters divided in my key (check to
>> make sure you have this)
>>
>> "MikeAtFormwise" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I have just received my Vista DVD directly from Microsoft. I have
>> > gone to
>> > install it and it asked me if I wanted to update from the internet,
>> > which I
>> > allowed it to do. It then asked me to enter in the Product Key which it
>> > then
>> > told me was incorrect! But I have double-checked my typing and it is
>> > exactly
>> > as printed on the sheet. Does anyone know what is going wrong? And does
>> > anyone know how to fix it? I can supply a scan of the sheet if anyone
>> > is
>> > interested.

"MikeAtFormwise" wrote:

> Hi, I have just received my Vista DVD directly from Microsoft. I have gone to
> install it and it asked me if I wanted to update from the internet, which I
> allowed it to do. It then asked me to enter in the Product Key which it then
> told me was incorrect! But I have double-checked my typing and it is exactly
> as printed on the sheet. Does anyone know what is going wrong? And does
> anyone know how to fix it? I can supply a scan of the sheet if anyone is
> interested.