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Herman Christiani
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      06-25-2007
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

 
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      06-25-2007

Herman Christiani;358826 Wrote:
> 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


You'll have to call Microsoft to reactive; I did; no problems.


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Richard G. Harper
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      06-25-2007
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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"Herman Christiani" <> wrote in message
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> 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



 
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Rock
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      06-25-2007
"Herman Christiani" <> wrote
> 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.

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Herman Christiani
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      06-25-2007
Hi, thanks for the info.
But what I meant is: Does Vista see the new hard drive as a different
computer?
TIA, Herman

"Rock" <> wrote in message
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> "Herman Christiani" <> wrote
>> 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.
>
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Hobo
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      06-25-2007
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


Herman Christiani wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the info.
> But what I meant is: Does Vista see the new hard drive as a different
> computer?
> TIA, Herman
>
> "Rock" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>
>> "Herman Christiani" <> wrote
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

>
>

 
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Rock
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      06-26-2007
"Herman Christiani" wrote
> 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.

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mikeyhsd
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      06-26-2007
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.







"Rock" <> wrote in message news:...
"Herman Christiani" wrote
> 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.

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