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| | We recently killed our Gateway after 7 years and replaced it with an eMachine preloaded with genuine, activated Vista Home Premium. So far, so good. Since we had the certified Vista install disc we tried it in our other home p.c. and it loaded easily. Now I see we only have 3 days until it must be activated, which the linked page says will cost $250 - too much since XP worked fine anyway. What I need to know is how hard it will be to roll it back to XP? I have a geniune XP disc we bought 5 years ago for the dead Gateway but have no idea if it will work on another home p.c. I got great tech support from MS for that XP; they helped me reload it on the Gateway once. If I can't download it after I uninstall VISTA on the other p.c., then is there any other way to roll it back to XP? Also, would extending the Vista activation period on the second home p.c. put my VISTA license on the pre-loaded computer at risk? |
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| | No there is no way to roll it back to XP, in upgrading to Vista you sacrifice your XP licence. Unfortunately yes you have put the original installation in jeopardy. Short of pating the upgrade fee the only thing you can do is to wipe the drive and reinstall XP, if the disk you have will work.
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| | I have not yet extended the Vista activation period using the workaround I found here, so is there another way I have put my OEM copy of VISTA (preloaded on eMachine) in jeopardy - just for downloading it to another computer? I would assume that it would have not allowed the download if it wasn't meant to be offered to other users for purchase, as well? I went over the XP licensing and activation rules and it seems that since the Gateway we bought the genuine XP for is dead, then we are entitled to download this copy of XP onto a successor computer - which we would deem our other p.c. for the purpose of reinstalling the XP after taking out the Vista copy we foolishly thought we could share with it. I understand it will take a call to MS to activate it. Can you suggest the best way to uninstall VISTA, reformat and install the XP in its new home (now the replacement p.c. for the dead Gateway)? |
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| | | | Vista Goddess
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| | You dont need to remove vista as a separate exercise as this will be done as part of the formatting. Boot to the XP disk and when it gets to the select where to instal, select the partition with Vista on and follow the instructions to delete that partition and then create a partition in the now empty space (that uniformly strips the boot recoed and partition table and starts you with a 'clean' drive) then select that new partition to install XP on and when it gives the formatting choices it should be highlighted as ' NTFS' if not change it to this and don't use the 'quick format' it will lead to problems down the line, the full format will take a little time even on a small partition but when it's done the installation setup will automatically start. Just have your serial number ready to enter, the only times it will need any input from you is to verify the keyboard layout you want (default is US English) then timezone information and finally during the network setup it will ask if you want to specify details or run with the default, do the latter and if you have any other computers on a network or an internet connection make sure they are connected as it will all be set up and working for you when it's finished. You will need to create at least one account when asked and a password(if you want one) otherwise leave it blank and when the PC is done and it boots proper it will go directly to the desktop and not to a log in screen, you can always set up accounts and things later if needed. Soon as it's running, install anti vrus software then activate it and download ALL the available updates when they're done update ALL your hardware drivers to the latest version. With all that accomplished you can start loading software of your choice.
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| if you activate vista on the eMachines, the vista license on the pre-loaded PC will be fine. All though, you will be going against the Microsoft license agreement. but if you do, nothing will happen. i have used the same OEM up to 10 times or more on different computers.
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| | | | Vista Goddess
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| Apart from the fact that simply don't believe you because what you say is not possible with and OEM disk, however if you like to think it is then you are acting unlawfully and encouraging others to do the same is not in the spirit of this forum, your membership is revoked.
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| | | | Vista Newbie
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| | My understanding is a license for Vista allows for using XP also. Contact Microsoft or do a Google search. Many people are legally downgrading to XP. |
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| You shouldn't post here about licensing terms until you have verified them...
To quote from MS: "Not all versions of software contain downgrade rights... The OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate include downgrade rights to Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition."
Please note that the "downgrade rights" do NOT come with a copy of XP; you must obtain that yourself.
So, in this person's case, since they are using Home Premium, they have no "downgrade rights".
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