Re: Upgrading from 180 day evaluation to standard
- From: "Miha Pihler [MVP]" <mihap-news@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:35:42 +0100
Hi John,
My guess is that you have Evaluation version of Enterprise Edition of
Windows 2003. In this case upgrade is not possible and you will have to do a
reinstall...
Is this server a domain controller?
Is 180 day already up?
--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
"John Burgess" <John Burgess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:18032DF4-B873-4EDB-A887-142EA5697573@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've got a machine which I upgarded to win2003 using the evaluation CD.
> After a while it became clear there weren't going to be any problems with
> win2003 so we've added more machines and I have now brought a cpy of
> standard
> edition for the machine that had the evaluation on it.
>
> However, when I try to install it says "This version of windows cannot be
> upgraded. The option upgrade will not be available."
>
> What can I do? Is there any way to just stick my new product key into
> this
> one and re- register it?
>
.
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