Reinstalling OS with other language

Hi,

I have this ACER ASPIRE 5810T laptop with a dutch Vista Home Premium installed. I would like to install the english version of the OS. I tried to use an OEM cd and use the key that is printed on the back of the laptop but Vista says the key is not a correct one.

Is there a way around this? I see there's a lot of knowledge on this forum about that but I can't filter the correct information for my case.

Any help is appreciated.

 

Well, I managed to install with one of these keys but I can't activate. I get the error "The Windows Vista Home Premium product key you typed is invalid for activation". I did upgrade to SP2 before activating.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Sebus, sorry if I stress you out with my questions but I'm new to all this.

I've been reading through the stickies but there's a lot of info.

I understand that the SLIC information is something that's included in the BIOS. I guess in my case I should first check if the SLIC information from the Acer[ACRSYS-ACRPRDCT-ANNI]2.0.bin matches the information in my BIOS. I guess there's a tool for that? If that information is not matching I should mod my BIOS?

For the certificate, I guess that just needs to reside somewhere on the filesystem?

 

But what if I already reinstalled the OS with an SLP key? It would mean the OEM certificate is gone.

Thanks for helping out. ('t begint te dagen ).

 

I got my Windows activated! Great stuff!

I did notice that the OEMCreatorID is set to '1025' in my BIOS while that from the file posted on the forum is set to 'ANNI' but it seems that didn't matter.

Thanks for your patience...

 

Correct.

So it seems. Good to know.

Well, thank you...