will i run into activation problems?

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i brought a copy of vista 32bit OEM for my laptop, clean installed/activated it, played around with it for a while and decided until notebook hardware control works properly with vista (i hate fan noise!!), i decided to restore a winxp ghost image i made before installing vista and in my haste i forgot to take an image of the vista partition before it got wiped.

when nhc finally gets vista compatibility (currently it blue screens when ran), and i reinstall, will i run into any activation problems of any sort? it'll be the same kit as when it was installed 2 weeks ago.

reading that people advise to install vista then take a ghost image right away, is that just to get around calling ms for reactivation when changing hardware? or is that to avoid situations like described above?
 
It'll work fine. If it does fail online activation, there should be no problems getting it activated over the phone. You haven't changed hardware, so the license is still valid.
 
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