Hi Grant,
When you come to activation, use the phone option. Takes longer, but it will
get activated this way. The change in hardware will cause the prior
activation hash to not match with the new one, so necessitates the lengthier
procedure.
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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
"Grant" <Grant[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] >I have a laptop that I bought Windows Vista Upgrade through the marketplace > on. Through my rough usage on my computer I ended up having to replace my > HDD do to fatal HDD errors. I desicided to get a hybrid drive this time > for > my laptop and I get the already in use error. Vista is as good as > uninstalled off my other HDD, still using the same computer just a newer > large hybrid drive. > > Any Ideas? > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=41728f66-ebe3-49f4-81d8-a2da8d836560&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
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