Installing Vista Home Premium with Vista Business CDs thekidzz 6/20/2007 9:19:51 PM Hi, I have a valid licence for Vista Home Premium that came with my new laptop. However, for business purposes, I had to purchase and install a clean versino of Vista Business. I would now like to use the valid licence of Home Premium that came with my laptop on my home desktop but I do not have any CDs for it. The laptop only came with a recovery partition. Can I use my Vista Businiss CD to install Home Premium with my Home Premium licence? Thanks, Mike

Re: Installing Vista Home Premium with Vista Business CDs "Tim" <tim_at_overthere.com> 6/20/2007 10:47:45 PM Sorry...the Vista Home Premium license that came on your laptop is an OEM license. That means it is good for only that laptop and cannot be legally used on a different PC. Tim "thekidzz" <thekidzz[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7F03F860-6D2A-4F8A-8436-93158CF34285[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi, I have a valid licence for Vista Home Premium that came with my new > laptop. However, for business purposes, I had to purchase and install a > clean versino of Vista Business. I would now like to use the valid > licence > of Home Premium that came with my laptop on my home desktop but I do not > have > any CDs for it. The laptop only came with a recovery partition. > > > > Can I use my Vista Businiss CD to install Home Premium with my Home > Premium > licence? > > > > Thanks, > Mike > >

Re: Installing Vista Home Premium with Vista Business CDs Bruce Chambers <bchambers[ at ]cable0ne.n3t> 6/21/2007 1:48:05 AM thekidzz wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, I have a valid licence for Vista Home Premium that came with my new > laptop. However, for business purposes, I had to purchase and install a > clean versino of Vista Business. I would now like to use the valid licence > of Home Premium that came with my laptop on my home desktop but I do not have > any CDs for it. The laptop only came with a recovery partition. > > You can't do that. By your own admission, you have an OEM license for WinXP that came with the laptopl. An OEM version must be sold with a piece of hardware (normally a motherboard or hard drive, if not an entire PC) and is _permanently_ bound to the first PC on which it's installed. An OEM license, once installed, is not legally transferable to another computer under _any_ circumstances. > > Can I use my Vista Businiss CD to install Home Premium with my Home Premium > licence? > No, of course not. They're two entirely separate operating systems. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell