Vista Premium upgrade

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Guest

I have an HP Media Center PC. Friday the hard drive decided it would not
boot... which didn't cause me a great amount of concern as I had been
planning to replace it with a larger one. Hard disk has now been replaced
with a new one and I went and got Vista Premium upgrade. I was under the
impression this was legal, as the computer had XP Media Center installed.
Tech at Best Buy said I would have to put the Media Centers key to prove it
was a legal copy. I've just tried the Vista activation and indeed it does
tell me this product can be used only for an upgrade, not a clean install.

What do I have to do to get this to work?
 
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dean-dean

One solution would be to install XP Media Center, and then upgrade, starting
the Install DVD from the XP desktop, that is, after having booted into XP.
 
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Paul Randall

stevem said:
I have an HP Media Center PC. Friday the hard drive decided it would not
boot... which didn't cause me a great amount of concern as I had been
planning to replace it with a larger one. Hard disk has now been replaced
with a new one and I went and got Vista Premium upgrade. I was under the
impression this was legal, as the computer had XP Media Center installed.
Tech at Best Buy said I would have to put the Media Centers key to prove
it
was a legal copy. I've just tried the Vista activation and indeed it does
tell me this product can be used only for an upgrade, not a clean install.

What do I have to do to get this to work?

Vista upgrades are designed to be installed over a previously installed
qualifying product, but there might be an intentional or unintentional
design flaw that can be taken advantage of.
You might try:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_upgrade_clean.asp
I've heard that this works, and some sources say that it may not activate
properly, or that it may not properly reactivate in the future, but I have
no confirmation one way or the other.

-Paul Randall
 

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