Home Premium Activation Problem

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Installed upgrade to Vista Home Premium on 1 Feb 07. I activated the product
when I first installed. Now I am recieving messages to activate windows,
when I do that it replies back with product key already used. I cannot
figure out what this means. I am afraid to call or e-mail MSFT fearing
something else will fail in the next 90 days and I won't have tech support
(great customer service). The upgrade went rather smoothe, the only problem
I ran into was after a couple days I started my computer and it changed drive
designation. C drive turned into E drive ect. Sometimes it does that, C is
actually on the raid controller and it tries to boot the others first.
Anyway, I had to disconnect the other drives and boot from originial HD that
vista was installed on. When I did that it asked me to insert the CD ROM and
I did. All was working well until last night 7 Feb 07. Can anyone help?
 
yodetdy said:
Installed upgrade to Vista Home Premium on 1 Feb 07. I activated the product
when I first installed. Now I am recieving messages to activate windows,
when I do that it replies back with product key already used. I cannot
figure out what this means. I am afraid to call or e-mail MSFT fearing
something else will fail in the next 90 days and I won't have tech support
(great customer service). The upgrade went rather smoothe, the only problem
I ran into was after a couple days I started my computer and it changed drive
designation. C drive turned into E drive ect. Sometimes it does that, C is
actually on the raid controller and it tries to boot the others first.
Anyway, I had to disconnect the other drives and boot from originial HD that
vista was installed on. When I did that it asked me to insert the CD ROM and
I did. All was working well until last night 7 Feb 07. Can anyone help?
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WOW! I thought Windows ME was bad. I went through the same problems with
Home Premium trying to get it to activate. It was the worst install process
I've ever seen. 5 years, millions of $$, thousands of programmer and beta
testing hours and THIS is the best they can do?
 
Have you guys downloaded ALL the Vista Updates first BEFORE using your PC?
See update details below:

Update for Windows Vista (KB931573)

Installation date: ‎07/‎02/‎2007 18:56

Installation status: Successful

Update type: Recommended

Install this update to resolve an issue where you may be prompted to
activate a pre-installed copy of Windows Vista. After you install this item,
you may have to restart your computer.

More information:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82159

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com
 
To all thanks for the reply, I finally got it figured out. I called MS at
the number they gave me for automated validation over the phone. When I
entered the numbers on the phone it did send an error but then I talked to a
person. I read him the numbers that windows generates and he gave me some
numbers to enter into the validation. I am sure that the MB changing the
drive letters had something to do with it. I also found out that changing
some drivers will also cause this. I look forward to many re-validations
since I am an upgrade nut. I would not be suprised if I need to do it again
with a new bios upgrade. I think that MS needs to take a step back on this
copyright worry and evaluate the custumer service level. I have to be honest
and say I was worried that I would not be able to validate the program after
spending 160 dollars on this OS. While I am this subject I hope that MS is
thinking about the upgrade process for vista a little more than they did for
XP. I think that issuing another DVD that includes all the updates once a
year for a nominal price would decrease the storage and bandwidth required to
keep it in the update area for all to download. For example I bout XP early
on just like I did Vista. In about a year or so XP came out with second
edition. I thank them for giveing it to us for free, but it was such a pain
to reload windows and get all the updates. I wish I could have got a 15.00
DVD with the OS and updates already on it. Anyway, I believe it would be
cost effective to both the customer and to microsoft.

Mike
 
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