Vista OEM

**Kodiak** · July 28th, 2008, 03:12 PM

Will the Vista Ultimate OEM reinstall another system like the XP OEM does? I had a customer that his pc crashed and I have an OEM (not with me at the time) and he has a valid prod key on the side of his box, will it reinstall Vista Home Edition?

**BOB IROC** · July 28th, 2008, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Kodiak

Will the Vista Ultimate OEM reinstall another system like the XP OEM does? I had a customer that his pc crashed and I have an OEM (not with me at the time) and he has a valid prod key on the side of his box, will it reinstall Vista Home Edition?

As far as I know it will but I have only used OEM discs from the computer manufacturers so far.

**Matridom** · July 29th, 2008, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Kodiak

Will the Vista Ultimate OEM reinstall another system like the XP OEM does? I had a customer that his pc crashed and I have an OEM (not with me at the time) and he has a valid prod key on the side of his box, will it reinstall Vista Home Edition?

It should. I would only be careful if it's one of the big box companies as they often use bios authentication, making the usage of a CD key unnecessary.

**Kodiak** · July 29th, 2008, 10:07 AM

Another question, does the ultimate version OEM contain all the versions of Vista and the key dictate what version is actually installed?

**Ferrit** · July 29th, 2008, 10:12 AM

Yes as far as i have seen.

**Kodiak** · July 29th, 2008, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

Yes as far as i have seen.

Ferrit does this mean I could take my Ultimate OEM cd and reinstall a Vista Home, Home Premium, Business or whatever version using their key and it be installed to their version?