will this require reactivation in vista?

skanky

skanky

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i have a laptop with an oem copy of vista ultimate on it and waiting for a delivery of a higher capacity hdd, currently there is a hitachi 100gb drive in there and i have a 160gb drive being shipped.

i intend to make a ghost image of the drive and restore it onto the new 160gb hdd, to you and me, the only thing windows would do on next boot is install "drivers" for the 160gb drive and it will work as normal but will vista notice? having read things like people changing the ram sizes, vista asks for reactivation im not entirely sure.

now its not a big deal, but would it ask me to reactivate given all i've changed is the hdd and nothing else?
 
my laptop's COA is for XP, but i've brought an OEM copy of vista ultimate to use on it and already installed a fresh install of vista on there.

i figured that i wont be changing the motherboard around at all on a laptop so no point in getting the retail version.
 
skanky said:
i have a laptop with an oem copy of vista ultimate on it and waiting for a delivery of a higher capacity hdd, currently there is a hitachi 100gb drive in there and i have a 160gb drive being shipped.

i intend to make a ghost image of the drive and restore it onto the new 160gb hdd, to you and me, the only thing windows would do on next boot is install "drivers" for the 160gb drive and it will work as normal but will vista notice? having read things like people changing the ram sizes, vista asks for reactivation im not entirely sure.

now its not a big deal, but would it ask me to reactivate given all i've changed is the hdd and nothing else?
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I read from a few places if you do a ghost image of your Vista build after you activated, and then restore it, you have to reactive it again
 
FishThrower said:
I read from a few places if you do a ghost image of your Vista build after you activated, and then restore it, you have to reactive it again
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i've just had to restore my (activated) image and its asked me to reactivate, trying it online failed again, so yet another call to MS..

ffs thats a load of crap, i brought the oem version and havent changed any parts apart from moving the image to a different hard drive.

what with the suggested limit of 10 activations on the oem version and it wanting to reactivate on a restore of ghost everytime, i think i'm going to have a very expensive coaster/frisbee very very soon.
 
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