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February 25th 10, 10:23 AM
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Windows7 and new motherboard or hard drive
Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get
a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with Microsoft. Thank you, David 
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February 25th 10, 11:26 AM
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Windows7 and new motherboard or hard drive
titus12 wrote:
Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with Microsoft. Well, you should ask in the Win7 newsgroup, rather than the WinXP one. I've changed several hard drives and motherboards on my XP system, and it never asked for a reactivation. I expect Win7 is the same. Yousuf Khan
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February 25th 10, 12:45 PM
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Windows7 and new motherboard or hard drive
If its a retail version, then yes
"titus12" wrote in message ... Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with Microsoft. Thank you, David
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February 25th 10, 02:07 PM
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Windows7 and new motherboard or hard drive
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:23:22 -0800, "titus12" wrote:
Can you use the same retail copy of Windows 7 to do a re-install if you get a new motherboard or hard drive? I am not clear on this licience thing with Microsoft. Yes you can. Though depending on what improvements you make to your PC it may require reactivation. If it does require reactivation and the online activation fails, a simple phone call to Microsoft and explaining what's happened will get it activated again.
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