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    why can i not activate me whs with the key microsoft gave me
    i had whs running with out a serial or not to sure if i put one in 30 or so odd days ago i now needed to do a reinstalation due to a problem and went on to my connect and got a key for a 120 day trial but it does not accept the serial ,it says i mistyped it .i can not do a fresh install as i have 3x terabytes of hard drive all full
    is there any way i can get this to activate
    thanks

    Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:40 PM

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    I always wonder, why people put such amount of (critical) data on a trial system.
    The most usual reason besides a typo or read error is, that you use the wrong key for the media (you cannot use a trial key on a WHS which got installed with an OEM DVD and vice versa).
    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf
    Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:11 PM
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