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Originally Posted by stevennodalo On January 8, 2007 I ordered a laptop that had XP Media Center but was Vista upgradable and said that I can get a free Vista upgrade when Vista was released. In February, after Vista came out, I ordered another laptop with Vista Home Premium on it. I talked to a sales representative from HP and he said I can use the Vista cd from the laptop i ordered in Feb, onto the laptop I ordered in January. Well, unfortunately, he was wrong. I installed it and it worked for about a month and now it wont let me access anything unless I type in a new product key. I can get a free Vista upgrade from windows, but will a Vista upgrade key work? Do i have to buy the Vista Home Premium in order to activate my laptop? I have been unable to use my laptop since 3 weeks ago and everyday i contact HP AND MICROSOFT about this and all of the operators (who can barely speak english) have trouble understanding me and direct me somewhere else until it has been hours and hours of waiting and redirecting and they finally tell me that they can't help me. Please, can someone help me out? |
What HP told you is very unfortunate. You can upgrade from Media Center to Home Premium. You could reinstall Media Center and then upgrade after you get your free upgrade. The free upgrade program is about to end so, assuming that you quality, you don't have much time to apply. And, receiving the free upgrades is taking an extreme amount of time. Alternatively, you could reinstall Media Center and buy an educational upgrade to Home Premium for about $70--which is likely to be much faster. As things stand, you are violating the Vista EULA, and, IMO, if you rearm for an additional period, the you will be breaking it twice--assuming the rearm will work when running in reduced functionality mode. You will not be able to use any upgrade disk unless you install a legitimate copy of XP first.