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reinstall vista upgrade?
Name: John (by mikepulley54) Date: September 8, 2008 at 23:59:26 Pacific OS: vista basic CPU/Ram: AMD 3000/1.5
Comment:
If I have to reinstall vista basic (upgrade) because of a crash or something do I have first install another version of windows first to install the upgrade because it has to be loaded within a windows os. If this is a true statement is there a workaround. I did not save the old version of windows when I loaded vista. If I had left the old version on there like it suggested legally could I have still put that version on another pc? I hope this posting wasn't too muddy. thx
Name: Brim Date: September 9, 2008 at 04:52:12 Pacific
Reply:
No reason to think that the article's steps won't work, but I was lead to believe you had to select upgrade on the second install otherwise when you tried to activate Windows it would fail because the serial number relates to an upgrade version of Vista which is what MS expect to see.
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Response Number 3
Name: John (by mikepulley54) Date: September 9, 2008 at 10:44:01 Pacific
Reply:
Thank You Biginner1 and Brim for your responces. Thanks Biginner1 that was what I was looking for, you did good! The system is running fine I just wanted to be prepared.
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