Vista x86 to x64 license

I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired
a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.

Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use its
key?

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Dave Harry

Charlie
Mon Apr 21 21:40:01 PDT 2008

IANAL, but the way I read the OEM license is no, you can not. The OEM
license is specific to version. Also, just to be clear, the NFR media is
probably NOT the same media as the OEM, and would use a different key
anyway.

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"Dave Harry" <DaveHarry@please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in
message news:upTeXBDpIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired
>a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.
>
> Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use
> its key?
>
> --
> Dave Harry

Colin
Tue Apr 22 07:45:07 PDT 2008

No, the key will not work. In any case, the media should be a standard
retail x64 dvd. A product key that came with it would be the NFR item. How
is it that you got the media without a PK? Perhaps it was a distribution of
SP1 integrated dvd's that was the point. In that case, the distribution
probably assumed that you already had Vista x64 rtm copies and so had PKs.

"Dave Harry" <DaveHarry@please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in
message news:upTeXBDpIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have a number of Vista Business 32bit OEM licenses and have just acquired
>a Vista x64 Business NFR media without a PIK.
>
> Can I install the 64 bit media in place of the original 32 bit, and use
> its key?
>
> --
> Dave Harry