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Mayboy · 01-10-2008, 04:37 PM

Originally i had Vista on my main hard drive but decided i wanted XP aswell so I could dual-boot. I formatted the drive and put XP onto it instead and bought another hard drive for Vista. It has been working for a couple of months (I don't really use Vista much mainly XP for my work) However I boot up into Vista tonight and it says it hasn't been activated, i tried to do so online and it said that my key had already been used (I assume this is from before when i had Vista as my main operating system)

Now I get a black screen saying it is not genuine and that i must activate it. How do I go about resolving this issue? Contact Microsoft?

01-10-2008, 04:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mayboy New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 18	Vista activating problem Originally i had Vista on my main hard drive but decided i wanted XP aswell so I could dual-boot. I formatted the drive and put XP onto it instead and bought another hard drive for Vista. It has been working for a couple of months (I don't really use Vista much mainly XP for my work) However I boot up into Vista tonight and it says it hasn't been activated, i tried to do so online and it said that my key had already been used (I assume this is from before when i had Vista as my main operating system) Now I get a black screen saying it is not genuine and that i must activate it. How do I go about resolving this issue? Contact Microsoft?