How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I hope this helps. Good luck! By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster. This site in other languages x. Anarchist [H]ard Gawd. Joined Jun 10, Messages 1, With prices the way they are it's sort of hard not to go the OEM route. Also keep in mind anything Microsoft says has to be legally accurate.
It doesn't mean they're going to enforce the restrictions. The system looks more like you get a score based on how much hardware is changing. As long as there aren't so many drastic changes occurring over a given timespan they'll keep activating the copy. I'm not even sure if they'd care if it was the same system or not.
Now if you're trying to reactivate every other day the hardware setup sure better be almost identical or they'll start wondering. SJConsultant 2[H]4U. Joined Jan 14, Messages 3, Got a link for the 'installed and activated' bit? All that xp needed was a physical disk for a qualifying product it could use a previous installation as well , I'd be suprised if vista was different.
Joined Aug 12, Messages 7, Well there you have it I'll post a link to this in the other thread I started regarding this. SJConsultant said:. You cannot use an upgrade key to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista.
From Microsoft website : "Clean install Upgrading to Windows Vista with a clean install means that you should use Windows Easy Transfer to automatically copy all your files and settings to an extra hard drive or other storage device, and then install Windows Vista. After the installation is complete, Windows Easy Transfer will reload your files and settings on your upgraded PC. You will then need to reinstall your applications. The upgrade version scans for a prior installed OS instead of asking for a CD.
DarkLegacy [H]ard Gawd. Joined Dec 26, Messages 1, Since that time, I've had to activate it 3 times. Every part except for the Hard Drive was different. Then maybe a year down the road, everything booted as normal but some fucking box popped up saying that a lot in my system has changed over the time since I activated.
It didn't say it exactly like that but I can't remember exactly. So I had to call them again to get a new code. Others may post with more knowledge. I didnt mean that it contains two different ones, I mean that it contain the x64 dvd and the x86 dvd but you can install just one.
You can't do a "bare metal" install with any Vista upgrade disk, but once you launch the install and it reboots into the Vista installer you can choose a clean install at that point, an upgrade or a dual boot. It isn't entirey the same as Vista drops an image on your PC that is as close to your PCs abstraction layer as you can get, then if the install is a success it deletes the XP install. If the Vista upgrade fails it reverts to your old OS. It's actually pretty clever and appears to work well, but it isn't the same old "clean install" people are used to.
Retail box Vista DVDs have both the 32 and 64 bit versions on the disk, all other versions are one or the other. The only major difference between the x86 and x64 versions are kernel extensions and some slight changes in the abstraction layer; the are at heart, the same OS with slightly different brains.
There is little reason to run 64 bit yet for most users and driver support is sometimes slower in updating for 64 bit OSs.
ATC7 3 Argentum. But is it the same for the x64 edition of windows vista? I have understood that if I bought the Vista Ultimate upgrade DVD retail it contains both the x86 and x64 editions, so first if I want to install the x64 edition can I boot from the dvd and do a clean install with formatting the harddisk? Some info that's leaked in the past 2 weeks, but certainly cannot be verified at this stage, does suggest that only the 64bit version of the Upgrade sku can be installed from boot which enables a clean install and a low level format.
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