Licence Problems

I have windows vista ultamate on my machine and I dont have a valid licence.
How do I resolve this ?

I bought this machine vista home premium when I worked at the Microsoft Xbox
group and they over wrote my operating system with windows vista ultamate.
Now I am not working there and dont have a license to run vista on my machine.

Can I buy and upgrade from windows vista home premium to windows vista
ultamate ?

Can I get a restore disk from Toshiba and restore vista home premium ? Will
this destroy all of the files that I have on my machine ?

Or do I have to by a full blown copy of windows vista ultamate ?

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:57:01 -0700, ConradNY
<> wrote:

>I have windows vista ultamate on my machine and I dont have a valid licence.
>How do I resolve this ?
>
>I bought this machine vista home premium when I worked at the Microsoft Xbox
>group and they over wrote my operating system with windows vista ultamate.
>Now I am not working there and dont have a license to run vista on my machine.
>
>Can I buy and upgrade from windows vista home premium to windows vista
>ultamate ?

How you gonna do that when the OS on the machine is Ultimate? Hmmm?

>Can I get a restore disk from Toshiba and restore vista home premium ? Will
>this destroy all of the files that I have on my machine ?

IF you could get such a disc, then yes, it would destroy everything.

>Or do I have to by a full blown copy of windows vista ultamate ?

By Jimminy... I think you've GOT it!

DDW
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Consult the documentation for the PC, you may have an onboard recover to
reinstall Home Premium, back up all important files first as it will erase
the drive during the process, or contact Toshiba tech support.

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"ConradNY" <> wrote in message
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>I have windows vista ultamate on my machine and I dont have a valid
>licence.
> How do I resolve this ?
>
> I bought this machine vista home premium when I worked at the Microsoft
> Xbox
> group and they over wrote my operating system with windows vista ultamate.
> Now I am not working there and dont have a license to run vista on my
> machine.
>
> Can I buy and upgrade from windows vista home premium to windows vista
> ultamate ?
>
> Can I get a restore disk from Toshiba and restore vista home premium ?
> Will
> this destroy all of the files that I have on my machine ?
>
> Or do I have to by a full blown copy of windows vista ultamate ?

"ConradNY" <> wrote in message
news:CE76DCEB-04F5-4BF6-BA72-...
>I have windows vista ultamate on my machine and I dont have a valid
>licence.
> How do I resolve this ?
>
> I bought this machine vista home premium when I worked at the Microsoft
> Xbox
> group and they over wrote my operating system with windows vista ultamate.
> Now I am not working there and dont have a license to run vista on my
> machine.
>
> Can I buy and upgrade from windows vista home premium to windows vista
> ultamate ?

Yes, if you first get it back to Vista Home Premium.

> Can I get a restore disk from Toshiba and restore vista home premium ?

Probably, but check first to see if you have a recovery partition. Contact
Toshiba and ask them if you're not sure.

> Will
> this destroy all of the files that I have on my machine ?

In this case, probably so. I would play it safe and back everything up.

> Or do I have to by a full blown copy of windows vista ultamate ?

No, you would be able to upgrade. Contact MS for details.

I don't know how Toshiba does it, but my HP came with Home Premium and an
"Anytime Upgrade" disc. I was able to buy the upgrade online and received a
license key to enter during the upgrade using the disc.

Ferd