vista reinstall after system-crash - activation failed

Hello,

after my harddisk and motherboard crashed last week, I had to reinstall
vista (x64, ultimate) on my new system (new motherboard and harddisk). I just
tried to activate the new installation and got the error message that my key
has been activated and is in use. how can I reactivate my vista?

thanks,
sabrina

"sabrina" <sabrina@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5B338961-2697-47F7-9116-DB047674AD1C@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> after my harddisk and motherboard crashed last week, I had to reinstall
> vista (x64, ultimate) on my new system (new motherboard and harddisk). I
> just
> tried to activate the new installation and got the error message that my
> key
> has been activated and is in use. how can I reactivate my vista?

You call MS's Software Activation Department and have them reset the
activation. If you didn't see the phone number when the activation was
rejected, the use Google to find the phone number.

I just got off the phone with the activiation center. thanks!

"Mr. Arnold" wrote:

>
> "sabrina" <sabrina@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5B338961-2697-47F7-9116-DB047674AD1C@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > after my harddisk and motherboard crashed last week, I had to reinstall
> > vista (x64, ultimate) on my new system (new motherboard and harddisk). I
> > just
> > tried to activate the new installation and got the error message that my
> > key
> > has been activated and is in use. how can I reactivate my vista?
>
> You call MS's Software Activation Department and have them reset the
> activation. If you didn't see the phone number when the activation was
> rejected, the use Google to find the phone number.
>
>