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Another activation issue
I've read throughout the forums, and i don't know if this certain situation has been answered already, but I've been working on my new computer for days trying to make this work.
I understand that you can purchase Windows 7 Professional Upgrade with the $29.99 student price, and use that key on Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade from (well, based on my situation,) Windows 7 Starter to Professional without people on these forums seem to have any problem.
However, when it comes to activation, it asks for my key again, and providing that key for the Professional upgrade will give me that error code 0xC004F061 and come to find out on the support site (Windows 7 activation error: 0xC004F061) "To install an upgrade version of Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP must be installed on your computer."
And yes, i've called Microsoft tech support, and then they directed me to Windows 7 Activation center, which was of no help since they keep telling me to contact Digital River. Digital River was of no help because then they told me to contact Microsoft... so basically i've been sent back and forth to contact those places.
So now I have some questions:
1. Has anyone who used their software upgrade key on Windows Anytime Upgrade run into the same activation issue i'm running into?
2. If so, were you guys able to resolve this issue WITHOUT having to just reinstall Windows 7 (ex. doing a clean install)?
3. Does this really mean I'm screwed and wasted $29.99 on something I can't use to do an in-place upgrade from one version of 7 to another?
I really don't want to resort to a clean install (even though I found out that works for my situation) because I just bought this Sony Vaio W netbook and want to retain some of the software and drivers it came with that the Sony support site did not have (like Battery Care, Vaio media plus, Vaio Care, etc.)