Windows 7 Windows 7 Help????

[beanie92]

ohk this might sound dumb,

but my mate has an oem version of windows 7 on his pc but his hard drive has failed and i was just wondering
if it can be wiped of the broke drive then installed onto a new drive with same product key?


thanks

 

[Trouble]

Shouldn't be a problem.
Replacing a crashed hard drive would not constitute changing the OEM product substantially enough as to void the OEM license, and......
I don't suspect that you are the only person ever to have performed this task.

 

[Joe S]

I think the problem comes when you try changing out the MB.
Joe

 

[beanie92]

so i can still use the old product key on a new drive in the same pc,

 

[patcooke]

Yes, at the very worst you may find you need to phone MS to validate but even that is unlikely.

 

[beanie92]

-edit thanks for all your help it worked perfectly