Dear all,
I bought Sony VAIO VGN-CR220E laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition.
But it came with only one drive (total 200 GB hard disk) and I thought that it would be better to get that disk into 3 or 4 partitions and I consulted an authorized dealer.
He told me that the said edition could not be made into partitions so go for another edition and recommended Windows Vista Starter Edition. It is a genuine edition and I purchased it from him.
He installed the OS and drivers it for me and charged me for everything he did.
After that, when I connected my laptop to internet, a message had appeared, mentioning the activation of the Vista. I followed the steps and successfully activated my Vista Stater edition with the given serial number. I got a confirmation mail to my Yahoo ID mentioning the successful activation of the product.
Coming to my present problem, recently I got an error with my network driver so after trying all the known methods I formatted the OS and reinstalled Vista Stater edition.
Similar to the earlier way, the same message has come for activation. But it is showing error in activation mentioning the cause that 'This Windows Vista Edition is in use'. I was shocked because I activated the same before and have been using for the lat one and quarter year. Now after formatting and re-installing the same, it is showing that the serial number is in use.
It is showing the time as 3 days left for activation or buy another product ID.
I don't know what to do and how to proceed.
Dear Geek-Friends please help me and suggest me what to do...
-K
