upgrade activation code will not work on windows vista premium due to special circumstances. What should I do?

I had vista OEM with laptop which hard drive has crashed, gateway does not support the system more, and I have no recovery disk.  I bought Vista premium edition and installed a new hard drive in the solid state, and it won't let me register the software because there is no software on the new drive and I do not have the OEM cd more.  I used my old XP install the first (that I replaced on another PC with win7) to try and it has not installed correctly on the solid state.  What I can do, I wouldn't buy a full version...

You can use the double-install method to install Vista - * assuming * that you have an OEM license valid for XP or Vista on this machine.

First install Vista using the default key (by penetrates not not in ANY key when you perform the installation), and then repeat the installation, this time using your upgrade key.

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