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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Legally, as long as you still have your XP/Vista licence key, you can install it fine on a new computer. You might have to phone them up but they will activate it. Otherwise you might try blagging it with them. Do you have the licence key for the Win 7 upgrade version? And do you have the DVDs? Are you doing a full reinstall, or are you going to copy your old hard drive image over to your new machine?[/QUOTE]That's where things get sticky. Basically what I have is the HDD I ripped out of my mum's old Dell desktop machine after she decided to get rid of it. It was originally pre-installed with Vista and later upgraded to Win7 (and yeas, I still have that disc.) Problem is that I imagine the Vista code was probably on a sticker in the case, which as far as I know ended up down the recycling centre. The plan was to either just shove the HD in the new machine, manually copy over the appropriate chipset drivers and whatnot and hop the OS will run long enough to install them properly and maybe reinstall the OS from the disc. Not sure if there's another way around it without resorting to...uh..."other means" but I'm open to suggestions. [QUOTE]One piece of hardware I would strongly recommend - a solid state drive. You can get 256GB ones for a bit over £100 nowadays, and they make a HUGE difference to your day to day life.[/QUOTE]Forgive me, but I don't really keep up with the tech trends. What's one of those and why are they so useful? I do have a neat little 1TB USB3 samsung external drive that I've been using to salvage my data ready for the new machine, so storage space shouldn't be an issue. Just to clarify though; have I made any poor selections with that hardware? I'm a bit wary of dropping over £500 only to find out something's incompatible or notoriously unreliable or something. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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