Vista Reinstall Mike 7/8/2007 3:00:00 AM i believe that my Hard drive is on the verge of a crash. i would like to reinstall vista which is a upgrade copy and i installed over XP. i hvae activated vista already. will i need to contact MS when i do the reinstall or before. also is their anything special i need to be aware for when i get ready to do the install on my new hard drive.

Re: Vista Reinstall "John Barnes" <jbarnes[ at ]email.net> 7/8/2007 3:29:09 AM You will need to reinstall your qualifying os, in your case XP before you can reinstall Vista. You will get an activation error that the key is in use and you will need to do a telephone activation and explain your situation. Usually no problem. "Mike" <Mike[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:78D6457C-4C73-413E-91CA-E0935F9E8894[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >i believe that my Hard drive is on the verge of a crash. i would like to > reinstall vista which is a upgrade copy and i installed over XP. i hvae > activated vista already. will i need to contact MS when i do the reinstall > or > before. also is their anything special i need to be aware for when i get > ready to do the install on my new hard drive.

Re: Vista Reinstall "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> 7/8/2007 1:33:32 PM Hi Mike, Image the drive with one of the many available programs, then swap the new drive in and lay down the image. You may be prompted to reactivate due to the hardware change, but it is simply a phone call. If you absolutely have to reinstall, then as you are using an upgrade you will need to either reinstall XP and then upgrade, or install the upgrade twice (once as a clean install w/o the product key, then as an upgrade with it). Again, you will need to reactivate using the phone method. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Mike" <Mike[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:78D6457C-4C73-413E-91CA-E0935F9E8894[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >i believe that my Hard drive is on the verge of a crash. i would like to > reinstall vista which is a upgrade copy and i installed over XP. i hvae > activated vista already. will i need to contact MS when i do the reinstall > or > before. also is their anything special i need to be aware for when i get > ready to do the install on my new hard drive.