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OEM VS. RETAIL

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Weaksauce
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If you have a OEM XP home edition and that harddrive crashes, can you use that same disk/key to install on a new harddrive?
 
Yes, most likely you can. You'll probably need to call Microsoft to activate, but it should work just fine... it always has for me.
 
In this situation, definitely. When/if you have to call in to activate, just explain that your hard drive died, and it was replaced, but it's still the same computer.
 
If it's the same motherboard, it's unlikely there will be a problem with getting them to reactivate.. that pretty much makes it the same computer.
 
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