If you don't know where your "license" for the upgrade is, then...
From Microsoft...
"A personal digital locker is created for you when you purchase a Windows
Vista upgrade. Your digital locker stores your product keys and purchase
information which, when used together, allow you to reinstall your upgrade
if necessary. A copy of your upgrade is also stored in your digital locker.

To access your upgrade in your digital locker for recovery:

Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the digital locker
icon. Alternatively, you can go directly to the Digital Locker website.
"
https://digitallocker.windowsmarketp...spx?limode=wau



"Mousesurfer" <Mousesurfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:24D7EDCA-BA78-4AF5-8CA1-2BCC24801D97@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for replying to my email
>
> Sorry, I am not familiar with this online digital locker your referring
> to,
> and that's part of the problem is not knowing my product key # for the -
> Windows Anytime upgrade (I know it for the Home Premium, but not for the
> Windows Anytime). How do I go about do that?
> --
> bjg3117
>
>
> "Gary Mount" wrote:
>
>> Use the Phone in method to activate your copy.
>> My experience is similar to yours. I upgraded from Home Premium to
>> Ultimate
>> and had a system failure some weeks later and had to reinstall.
>> I could not activate my re installed version automatically via the
>> Internet.
>> I had reinstalled to a different hard drive from my first activated
>> install.
>> Instead of phoning in to activate, I reinstalled Ultimate but installed
>> to
>> the same drive the first activated version had been installed on.
>> The activation went through without having to use the phone method.
>> Anyway, the phone in method will work.
>>
>> I am assuming you used your anytime upgrade license key to reinstall the
>> upgrade.
>> If you did not, then you can go to your online digital locker and recover
>> your anytime upgrade license key to reinstall your upgrade.
>>
>> "Mousesurfer" <Mousesurfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:191CF454-5C19-4DB6-A22D-16F35AF2017A@microsoft.com...
>> > I purchased from Staples (07/05/2007) the Windows Anytime Upgrade disc
>> > to
>> > go
>> > from; Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate. (This was
>> > all
>> > from from a complete witch over from Windows XP to begin with as I
>> > bought
>> > a
>> > new computer system. Which, quite truthfully has been nothing but
>> > frustrating
>> > and headaches right from the beginning).
>> >
>> > My computer crashed. I re-installed HP Recovery Disc & Windows Anytime
>> > Discs
>> > - all seemed well. Then it started telling me I needed to - "Activate
>> > Windows
>> > in so many days or it would (I believe it said) become inactive? Which
>> > it
>> > did.....I'm now back to just Windows Home Premium.
>> >
>> > Does this mean I have to fork out more money? and I guess and can't
>> > even
>> > just get the upgrade this time around can I? because I'm already on the
>> > Home
>> > Premium?
>> > I need help please!!!! I fairly new at all this. I'm not a computer
>> > tech,
>> > just a someone that has a homebased computer.
>> > --
>> > bjg3117
>>
>>