I recently did a clean install of Windows Vista 64 Ultimate (which is legit I may add!) as it was about time the HDD had a clear out. So did the fresh install on a formatted HDD, inputted my serial number and away I go.
3 days later a message pops up saying this serial number is already in use and Vista cannot be activated online. Okay, so manually tried to activate it again online and still says its already in use. So tried again but this time used the option to activate on the phone, after selecting country it gave me a phone number for an automated service to activate Vista.
Onscreen it gives me 9 blocks of numbers which I input into the automated service with the phone keypad and it gives me a sequence of 9 blocks of numbers back to put into the computer. At this point I thought all this will do is try and activate my Vista again but come back saying already in use as Im still using the same serial number/product code. I was shocked when it said, Windows has been activated...
WTF?!? How can it not activate Vista online but activate okay using the phone service when Im still using the same serial number and apparently the serial number is already in use??? That dosent make sense, can anyone explain this?
Anyway, Im really happy it worked cos I didnt want to mess around trying to sort it.
3 days later a message pops up saying this serial number is already in use and Vista cannot be activated online. Okay, so manually tried to activate it again online and still says its already in use. So tried again but this time used the option to activate on the phone, after selecting country it gave me a phone number for an automated service to activate Vista.
Onscreen it gives me 9 blocks of numbers which I input into the automated service with the phone keypad and it gives me a sequence of 9 blocks of numbers back to put into the computer. At this point I thought all this will do is try and activate my Vista again but come back saying already in use as Im still using the same serial number/product code. I was shocked when it said, Windows has been activated...
WTF?!? How can it not activate Vista online but activate okay using the phone service when Im still using the same serial number and apparently the serial number is already in use??? That dosent make sense, can anyone explain this?
Anyway, Im really happy it worked cos I didnt want to mess around trying to sort it.
