No it just has to be present on the hard disk, hence installing it twice but only activating it once. Vista does not know that you are installing over an un-activated copy and accepts that you are doing an upgrade.
Cheers, Adam. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang Sent: 25 October 2007 06:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Vi$ta Upgrade DVD > If it's a new drive just run the install but DO NOT try and register it > yet. Reboot and start up Vista. Then reinsert the DVD and rerun the > upgrade, this will upgrade your copy of Vista to Vista and allow you > legally to register it without having an old messy OS still on it. I am going the clean install route. I found a webpage talking about that. When you activate the Vi$ta Upgrade, do you need to submit the key of your previous Window$, so as to prove that it's an upgrade? -- @~@ http://changmw.homeip.net / v \ May the Force and Farce be with you! Linux 2.6.23.1 /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 7.04) 13:56:01 up 11 days 16:22 ^ ^ 2 users load average: 0.06 0.03 0.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
