OEM VS. RETAIL

[21questions]

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?

 

[digital_exhaust]

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.

 

[Keiichi]

Yes.

 

[DeaconFrost]

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.

 

[Mithent]

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.