Invalid Product Key

[scottish]

Ok well i bought the Windows 7 on the Student offer thing, so i do a clean install on computer.

Get it all installed running fine then go to activate windows

'Invalid Product Key'

'The following failure occured while trying to use the product key:

Description
The software licensing service determined that this specified product key can only be used for upgrading, not for clean installations.'

any way to sort this?

[Agnostic Bear]

Yes. Use your eyes and realise you can only upgrade, not install fresh.

[Recursion]

Yes. Use your eyes and realise you can only upgrade, not install fresh.

I installed fresh with the student upgrade...

Just upgrade your current 7 install to Windows 7 and it'll work. LOL

[scottish]

Yes. Use your eyes and realise you can only upgrade, not install fresh.

useless crap post ty 4 that


I installed fresh with the student upgrade...

Just upgrade your current 7 install to Windows 7 and it'll work. LOL

LOL ok i'll try it later, should of probably activated it being installing everything ;l

[Luke]

useless crap post ty 4 that



LOL ok i'll try it later, should of probably activated it being installing everything ;l

try doing it over the phone, thats my trick - system is too stupid too notice when you have your key installed on 3 computers as well lol

[scottish]

I prefer avoiding phone calls as usually when i phone customer services i get the worst english-speaking indian in the call centre.

Everything he says is basically 'sorry what was that?' :P

[xxMATTGxx]

try doing it over the phone, thats my trick - system is too stupid too notice when you have your key installed on 3 computers as well lol

That's only good if that actually works. When it doesn't you need to speak to someone from MS and that took the **** to get a bloody new key back when I was using Vista.