Vista finally installed!

Wow, what a pain in the neck that was. Trying to get to Windows Vista Ultimate on my Home Theater PC that I had to replace the hard drive in. Here is what I had to do:

1) Unplug the network connection.
2) Install Vista Home Premium fresh (my Ultimate licesne is an upgrade from Home Premium).
3) Plug network connection back in.
4) Upgrade Home Premium to Home Premium (because my base Vista license is an upgrade license)
5) The install failed right at the end.
6) Unplug the network connection.
7) Repeat step 4.
8) Plug network connection back in.
9) Download Ultimate license file from Windows.com.
10) Put in the Anytime Upgrade disc and upgrade to Ultimate.
11) The install failed right at the end.
12) Unplug the netowrk connection.
13) Repeat step 9.
14) Repeat step 10.

It works now! You think it would be a pretty simple matter of just knowing that I own x number of licenses, simple as that.

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