iggster

Well it seems like I might have to do that just to get it to change, I had a legit copy of windows vista ultimate 32 bit, reformated and got a legit copy of vista 64 bit but home premium, I put the new product key in and it still has the same old product key of ultimate, even when I click on change product key the old one still shows up

Someone help! lol

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ignite

Did you enter the new product key when Ultimate was already installed? You can't switch a product key if they are two different versions once Vista is installed. If you want to go from Ultimate -> Home Premium, you have to install Home Premium, not install Ultimate and just switch the keys.

iggster

I installed ultimate first with the product key etc etc and then I wanted a 64 bit os but since I had the oem ultimate version I couldnt get it, well that I knew off?? So I bought the 32 bit home premium version installed and while installing it asked for product key I installed it and when it was done I checked my computer and same product key as ultimate and I even tried changing through my computer but no luck

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ignite

That is odd. Did you format your computer or just try to install over Ultimate? Is the key actually registered and Genuine or it gives you a warning that you need to purchase Windows?

iggster

keys are valid and no warnings, I just dont want to get one later on. I reformated twice and yesterday I screwed up vista so I had to reinstall it and format agian and still get the same key.

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The_Rocker

You didn't format properly.

GH0

Yeah, I agree with The_Rocker, you must not have formatted properly, otherwise, it wouldn't say something like that.

I do a full format each time I install Windows, just to be safe.

phillipjos

If you rite to zeros and then installed it would of worked you mite have 2 vistas on hd,i did it with raid0 and had 2 vistas on hd,not sure tho

G|F.E.A.D|Killa

i hope your not talking about the key that microsoft gives you after you intall windows. if so then that is your computs ID for microsoft and will not change till you change boards.

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phillipjos

yeah thats tech. speaking even with home prem. if you keep the same mb you shouldnt need to reactivte but i changed from 2 gigs or ram to 4 and it made me react.so i had to call in and wasnt happy but there wasnt any problem activateing it.