Quote Originally Posted by fanni View Post
You lot need to read up on slic bios

you can flash your bios so that it it the same as an oem machine then you don't need to activate windows at all

I installed windows 7 the other day onto another hdd and it found and deleted my bootloader for vista
Since then i've flashed my bios and am now happily activated
Back in the day I loved that corporate copy of xp, but now I'm a diehard fan of oem cd's. Only strange one I saw once - popped a copy of dell vista business premium 32 on an older dell (dimension 4600 maybe?). Seemd to all go on fine until around 3-4 weeks later the activation cocked up which we fixed by entering a legit but unused vista business premium serial.