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?
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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