Vista x86 to x64 license

[Guest Dave Harry]

I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired

a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.

 

Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use its

key?

 

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Dave Harry

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: Vista x86 to x64 license

 

IANAL, but the way I read the OEM license is no, you can not. The OEM

license is specific to version. Also, just to be clear, the NFR media is

probably NOT the same media as the OEM, and would use a different key

anyway.

 

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Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"Dave Harry" <DaveHarry@please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in

message news:upTeXBDpIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired

>a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.

>

> Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use

> its key?

>

> --

> Dave Harry

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: Vista x86 to x64 license

 

No, the key will not work. In any case, the media should be a standard

retail x64 dvd. A product key that came with it would be the NFR item. How

is it that you got the media without a PK? Perhaps it was a distribution of

SP1 integrated dvd's that was the point. In that case, the distribution

probably assumed that you already had Vista x64 rtm copies and so had PKs.

 

"Dave Harry" <DaveHarry@please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in

message news:upTeXBDpIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired

>a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.

>

> Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use

> its key?

>

> --

> Dave Harry