re-activate Vista (oem) possible on new harddrive?

[Herman Christiani]

Hi, Personal Smartcheck is warning me that the hard drive containing Vista
Home Premium (oem) will fail shortly. Can I re-install Vista on a new drive
(same computer) and re-activate? or do I need to buy a new license? TIA,
Herman

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Install Vista on your new hard drive and re-activate as you usually would.
At worst you'll have to phone in and re-activate, it won't be necessary to
buy a new license.

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[Rock]

Hi, Personal Smartcheck is warning me that the hard drive containing Vista
Home Premium (oem) will fail shortly. Can I re-install Vista on a new
drive (same computer) and re-activate? or do I need to buy a new license?
TIA,

Yes you can reinstall/reactivate Vista as many times as you want on the same
computer. An OEM version cannot be moved to a different computer.

 

[Herman Christiani]

Hi, thanks for the info.
But what I meant is: Does Vista see the new hard drive as a different
computer?
TIA, Herman

 

[Hobo]

I think you're splitting hairs here, Herman. Vista will see
it as a hardware change and you will likely have to phone in
to reactivate it. If they ask, tell them you had to replace
the hard drive because the original one was problematic.

Hobo

 

[Rock]

Hi, thanks for the info.
But what I meant is: Does Vista see the new hard drive as a different
computer?

<snip>

No. Changing a hard drive is fine. You'll probably have to do the phone
activation.

 

[mikeyhsd]

you have complained to enough people about sniping parts of message out to the history is gone.
now you are doing it.
are you afraid of people checking to see if what you are saying is appropriate.



(e-mail address removed)

Hi, thanks for the info.
But what I meant is: Does Vista see the new hard drive as a different
computer?

<snip>

No. Changing a hard drive is fine. You'll probably have to do the phone
activation.