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I put my key in up front after booting from Upgrade installer, formatted the drive, installed and auto-activated. Others report the same. Is a format not clean enough to trigger your key-later requirement?
Am going to test it on a zeroed drive tomorrow.
EDIT UPDATE: My Amazon Upgrade disk didn't arrive til 10/25 and I just tried installing from boot to a zeroed drive. After installation the activation link on Computer>Properties would NOT accept the key. So I did an Upgrade (repair) install over that installation and it accepted the key afterward this time. It must require some kind of traces on the HDD of previous activation of qualifying OS.
Last edited by gregrocker; 26 Oct 2009 at 22:49.