Windows7 and new motherboard or hard drive

[titus12]

Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get
a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with
Microsoft.

Thank you,
David

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get
a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with
Microsoft.

Well, you should ask in the Win7 newsgroup, rather than the WinXP one.
I've changed several hard drives and motherboards on my XP system, and
it never asked for a reactivation. I expect Win7 is the same.

Yousuf Khan

 

[DL]

If its a retail version, then yes

 

[Roy Smith]

Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get
a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with
Microsoft.

Yes you can. Though depending on what improvements you make to your PC
it may require reactivation. If it does require reactivation and the
online activation fails, a simple phone call to Microsoft and explaining
what's happened will get it activated again.