Activated when I (maybe) shouldnt have...

[Rod Davies]

I bought a copy of Vista Home Premium for the wife.

I built a new PC for her from components from 2 yr old P4s.

I acivated Vista, no probs.

But, I now realise:

1. I cant put her 2nd HDD into this PC (no space!) and she 'needs' that 2nd
drive as it holds all her data...kept separate from applications and O/S on
disc 1 and
2. The motherboard in the PC I built wont support Aero (not enough on board
memory on the builtin Video card).

So I have to start again. But re the Activation, I WON'T be able to do it
again online as I did yesterday with this PC, right? I am going to have to
phone it in?

Rgds
Rod

 

[Qu0ll]

I bought a copy of Vista Home Premium for the wife.

I built a new PC for her from components from 2 yr old P4s.

I acivated Vista, no probs.

But, I now realise:

1. I cant put her 2nd HDD into this PC (no space!) and she 'needs' that
2nd drive as it holds all her data...kept separate from applications and
O/S on disc 1 and
2. The motherboard in the PC I built wont support Aero (not enough on
board memory on the builtin Video card).

So I have to start again. But re the Activation, I WON'T be able to do it
again online as I did yesterday with this PC, right? I am going to have to
phone it in?

That's right, but it's a relatively painless procedure. The operator will
just need to establish that it's a _reinstall_ and not a _second_ install.
They will ask you how many machines you are installing this copy on Windows
on to. You say one of course

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And loving it,

-Q
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[Rock]

I bought a copy of Vista Home Premium for the wife.

I built a new PC for her from components from 2 yr old P4s.

I acivated Vista, no probs.

But, I now realise:

1. I cant put her 2nd HDD into this PC (no space!) and she 'needs' that
2nd drive as it holds all her data...kept separate from applications and
O/S on disc 1 and
2. The motherboard in the PC I built wont support Aero (not enough on
board memory on the builtin Video card).

So I have to start again. But re the Activation, I WON'T be able to do it
again online as I did yesterday with this PC, right? I am going to have to
phone it in?

If it's retail it can be moved to a new computer if first uninstalled from
the computer it's on. Yes you'll need to phone in for activation.