My hard drive failed and I had to replace it. I reinstalled XP
professional with the proper product key and I activated it
successfully online. When I tried to reinstall my vista business
upgrade it asked for my product key and then I received an error
message telling me to install from my original operating system.

I deleted the product key and installed vista. It is now running but I
cannot activate. Using my valid vista business product key that worked
when I originally installed xp and upgraded to vista I receive an
error message telling me that this product key can only be used for an
upgrade not a clean install.

How can get around this problem???

When I use the upgrade product key during the vista upgrade I receive
the error message in efect telling me to reinstall my original
operating system and if I try the clean install approach I can't
activate??

Hello GodFather,

Since you have a Upgrade version of Vista, use the method in this
tutorial to install it instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68...ade-vista.html

You should be able to activate it afterwards. If not you may just need
to do a phone activation. This will show you how to if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84...sta-phone.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


godfather94024;885444 Wrote:
My hard drive failed and I had to replace it. I reinstalled XP
professional with the proper product key and I activated it
successfully online. When I tried to reinstall my vista business
upgrade it asked for my product key and then I received an error
message telling me to install from my original operating system.

I deleted the product key and installed vista. It is now running but I
cannot activate. Using my valid vista business product key that worked
when I originally installed xp and upgraded to vista I receive an
error message telling me that this product key can only be used for an
upgrade not a clean install.

How can get around this problem???

When I use the upgrade product key during the vista upgrade I receive
the error message in efect telling me to reinstall my original
operating system and if I try the clean install approach I can't
activate??


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