Problem of formatting windows vista edition upgrade Home premium

A few years ago I bought a pc custom made and also bought a version ledgit of windows xp media Center, with this, I also received a free uprade for windows vista home edition premium, I gave it some time before moving to vista (because of all the initial problems that vista had when he was releaeased).

But now I have vista on my pc is for a year or two irratically running at least, so I desperately need to format my pc, I have read in various articles that once you upgrade to vista xp your original key to become obsolete, surely this cannot be the case, I paid full price for the Media Center program , and if indeed this is the case how do I clean my pc and reinstall vista on it.

Thanks in advance for any response to my dilemma

bigsi69

This is your key to your XP license.

You can wipe the computer and reinstall.

It now part of the process to upgrade and stop install you on another computer.

But you can use it to reinstall > then go back to Vista.

If you have any problems, just call Microsoft and explain what you are doing.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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