I haven't had that experience. Originally I installed Vista Ultimate and
activated; some months later I reformatted and installed again on the same
machine, activation was refused as the 'product key was already in use.' My
only resort was to either use another product key (which fortunately I had)
or telephone the activation number.
This is one of the reasons I always keep an up to date image of my hard
drive (using Acronis True Image). The image also copies he activation codes,
so when you need to re-install the operating system it is a simple matter of
re-imaging using the backup image and you don't need to activate again.
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>>> "Inachu" <> wrote in message
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>>>>I previously installed Vista on an older pc to see how Areo would
>>>>perform on
>>>> a P4 with only around 700 megs of ram. It ran poorly and I was foolish
>>>> to
>>>> activate it on that pc.
>>>>
>>>> I have a newer pc I would like it to reside on instead since I maxed
>>>> out the
>>>> memory and it is dual channel memory at that!
>>>>
>>>> Will I run into any problems activating it on the newer pc?
>>>> Or will I have to call Microsoft and explain my situation?
>>>
>>> You get three installations per disk before you have to call Microsoft.
>>>
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>> How do you figure that?
>>
>
> That's been my experience.
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