reinstall on a new harddrive

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my seagate hard drive failed, so i replaced it with a temporary hitachi...
after i installed vista onto it it told me that the key is already in use.
can anyone suggest how i can work around this? or is that it .. one hardware
failure and youre screwed?

any help will be appreciated, i have 2 days :)
 
maybe i should have included that this is a perfectly legitimate copy of
vista that was previously installed and registered on the seagate hard drive.
 
You have to do the phone activation bit, and hang on until you get a real
person.
The Product Key IS in use, by YOU! That is at microsoft from the 1st
activation
 
Thanks Mick .. did the thing .. it was simple.. I am obviously MORE simple ...

cheers
 
These days, no-one explains anything, lol.
We are all left in the dark to find out for ourselves.
 
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