Vista Ultimate upgrade

I upgraded my computer to Vista Ulimate from Vista Business. Now I have a
new computer and was wondering if there is anyway to switch the upgrade to my
new computer and do a full factory recovery on my old one. Is there anyway
to do this without buying a new licence key?

Hi Josh,

It depends on what type of Upgrade Vista installation DVD you have, and
if you have separate produc key numbers for each edition of Vista.

If you have a retail upgrade version, then you can use this tutorial to
do a clean install with the upgrade Ultimate on the other computer and
reinstall Business again on the old one.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68...ade-vista.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Josh;779398 Wrote:
> I upgraded my computer to Vista Ulimate from Vista Business. Now I have
> a
> new computer and was wondering if there is anyway to switch the upgrade
> to my
> new computer and do a full factory recovery on my old one. Is there
> anyway
> to do this without buying a new licence key?


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The disk that I used to upgrade from business to ultimate is from my school.
I think the only way you can use it is to upgrade an existing version if
vista. It has a product key and the whole key is numbers if that means
anything. And both of the computers have OEM versions of windows

The thing i am worried about is if I can switch the upgrade to other computer

"Josh" <Josh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1038F69B-A419-4991-A770-26EDD334F015@microsoft.com...
>I upgraded my computer to Vista Ulimate from Vista Business. Now I have a
> new computer and was wondering if there is anyway to switch the upgrade to
> my
> new computer and do a full factory recovery on my old one. Is there
> anyway
> to do this without buying a new licence key?

The full factory recovery of your first machine depends on the OEM and if
they provided you with some recovery DVDs or CDs or if you were supposed to
make them when you first got the machine or if there is a recovery partition
on the machine - in other words read the manuals that came with the system
or contact the OEM.

As regards moving the upgrade. If the upgrade was not an OEM one - so may
be a volume license agreement such as a campus or enterprise agreement or
even some form of retail disk etc - then once you have restored your first
machine to remove the upgrade from it, you can apply the upgrade to your new
machine. You may have to activate over the telephone, just follow the
instructions from the activation wizard. As long as the upgrade is not
installed on two machines then you will be OK and just explain this (that
the product is no longer on the first machine and is now on the second) to
the activation rep if you have to telephone activate

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Mike Brannigan

Thanks that is what I wanted to know