Windows upgrade activation

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fumla replied

21 August 2009, 09:19
wow, thats cool, thank you so much for sharing this.... I have had alot of troubles with the upgrade version of Vista to get it installed, since exactly as they mention on the site, it won't let me activate the products, so I messed around with it and finally bought a full version of Vista, this could have safed me money....
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thunderlizard replied

20 August 2009, 23:08
Yes, that seemed to work.
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thunderlizard replied

20 August 2009, 09:30
Originally posted by Clippy View Post

The below link will solve your problem.

How to clean install Windows Vista with upgrade media.

Clever. Lateral thinking. I'll try that one.
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Clippy replied

19 August 2009, 20:57
The below link will solve your problem.

How to clean install Windows Vista with upgrade media.
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pmeswani replied

19 August 2009, 20:06
Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

I bought a laptop with XP home edition pre-installed.
Then I bought Vista Business upgrade edition, and installed that.
Then Norton failed to spot a hideous virus that messed up my disk partition so badly that the computer wouldn't start. The only way I could get it to start was to tell it to boot from a linux CD, which let me clean up the disk so I could install Windows Vista again.

That was a couple of weeks ago, and now Windows wants to be activated, but it won't accept my product key because it thinks it's a clean install and it's only an upgrade key.

Should I pop round to CEX and get a cheap Windows 2000 full edition CD, install that, then install my Vista upgrade on top? Or is there a better way?

If you look hard enough, you will find instructions on how to perform a clean install of Vista Upgrade without having to install any other OS.
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Durbs replied

19 August 2009, 18:43
Just phone the MS number thats displayed, they'll give you a new activation key if you explain it well enough. Had to do it before but it's fairly quick and painless.
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thunderlizard started a topic Windows upgrade activation

19 August 2009, 16:59
Windows upgrade activation

I bought a laptop with XP home edition pre-installed.
Then I bought Vista Business upgrade edition, and installed that.
Then Norton failed to spot a hideous virus that messed up my disk partition so badly that the computer wouldn't start. The only way I could get it to start was to tell it to boot from a linux CD, which let me clean up the disk so I could install Windows Vista again.

That was a couple of weeks ago, and now Windows wants to be activated, but it won't accept my product key because it thinks it's a clean install and it's only an upgrade key.

Should I pop round to CEX and get a cheap Windows 2000 full edition CD, install that, then install my Vista upgrade on top? Or is there a better way?
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