Reactivate after reinstall

I had a catastrophic accident and had to reload Vista from the upgrade disk - having lost the original activation key - how re - activate my install Vista already installed.

You need the product key for activate - there are no other options.  If it is lost, you must contact the manufacturer to see if they will help you (but they probably won't).  If you had posted before you did we would have provided the re-installation software to get the code of your system, but since you have reinstalled it is no more on the system.  Without a product key, your only real option is to buy new software sales to retail that comes with a new product key.

Here's how to replace the software through Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246.  I don't know if this will help or not because it is the product key and not the software which is lost, but I him for what it's worth.

Sorry if this is not the news you wanted to hear, but that's the way things are.

Good luck!

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