How many times I can activate

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I activated my Windws 8 last week but yesterday my HDD died. Want to know if I can activate the windows again with the new HDD?

How soon should I activate? As I have purchased it with the upgrade offer, do I need to activate again before 31?

I read is some old thread that it can be activated unlimited times on same machine and 5 times on upgrade. How does MS determine if the system is same or upgraded?

Please advice!
 
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same machine is same hardware, new hard drive shouldn't matter tbh

as it's a upgrade, you will have to put on the pre o/s before you use the upgrade unless you use the work around that is
 
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