Re: Activation Error 0xC004F061
- From: BH <BH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:20:00 -0800
Have a similar problem. I was reinstalling Win XP pro when I realized I have
lost the cd key. So I then decided to try out the Vista Business I had
purchased but was forced to do a clean install due to my previous problem.
Now I recieve the 0xc004f061 error upon activation.
Both XP and Vista are legal copies and I have the digital reciepts. Is there
anyway to bypass this problem as I cant even ask Microsoft for help without
paying 60$?
"Rock" wrote:
Ok, good luck..
"edenney" <edenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
"Rock" wrote:
"edenney" <edenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wroteThat pretty well sums up the action I had taken. I'll try the phone
I did start the upgrade from within XP...so it sounds like I'm pretty
much
hosed because I did what the upgrade told me I needed to do? Am I
completely
unable to upgrade from Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Home Premium?
"Rock" wrote:
"edenney" <edenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
I'm getting an Activation Error Code: 0xC004F061 when I try to
activate
my
Vista Home Premium upgrade. I was running XP Pro on this machine,
and
when I
was doing the install, the installer said I had to do a clean
install
from
XP
Pro. Now The error message is giving me the description "The
Software
Licensing Service determined that this specified product key can
only
be
used
for upgrading, not for clean installations." Does this mean that
even
though
I had a Genuine Windows XP Pro on my computer, I can't use the
upgrade
to
Vista?
To top it off, it keeps telling me that my 90 day free support call
period
has expired, although I've never called it before, and just
installed
Vista a
few days ago. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this issue?
To use an upgrade version you have to start the upgrade from within an
installed, activated and genuine copy of XP. It will then allow
either
an
in place upgrade (for certain upgrade paths) or only a custom
installation
(programs and data are not migrated). There has been published a work
around to allow the installation of an upgrade version w/o XP being
installed. Here is one link for it. Use at your own risk.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932
If you want to migrate data and settings from the XP installation use
the
Windows Easy Transfer (WET) on the XP installation before the upgrade.
You can use an upgrade edition to go from XP Pro to VHP, but only as a
custom installation, not an in place upgrade. It sounds on the surface
like
what you did was right. To rehash this, XP Pro was installed, activated
and
genuine. From the XP desktop you inserted the Vista DVD, did the
preliminaries, entered the upgrade product key, then chose a custom
install
because that's all that was available, and did the installation?
If it won't activate on line, phone in for activation.
--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
activation, and see if I have more luck there. Thanks!
--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
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