WINDOWS OEM ACTIVATION TOOL 3.0 PC

With hardware you paid for the Windows 7 license. You bought the hardware, you own the hardware.

There is nothing illegal in this procedure.

It is possible to re-activate on the new drive when the existing OEM product key has been extracted from the old Windows 7 installation.

It is impossible to transfer the activation from old hard drive to the new one.Actual Windows 7 license (activation) will be stored on the hard drive, the OEM product key of this installation is not known.The hardware must has a suitable identification for the OEM partner in its BIOS called SLIC.HP/Compaq is a Microsoft OEM partner and they get their Windows 7 licenses with special pricing.The laptop in question is manufactured by HP/Compaq.In this particular case following circumstances exist:

and 'call home' to verify, that you are allowed to run the installation. This literally means, that your Windows will emulate E.T. In Microsoft lingo it is called The Activation. Even in the best case, where you're prepared to lose all of your files and information, the only thing that you need to transfer is your Windows 7 license. So to succesfully replace the hard drive, some preliminary steps are needed.

'All your stuff' includes Windows operating system, your user profile information, settings, background picture of your desktop, all your precious photos.

WINDOWS OEM ACTIVATION TOOL 3.0 PC

It is obvious, that when you remove the old hard drive from your PC and replace it with a new one, all your stuff won't be on the new drive. This is a follow-up post on my previous post about Replacing Compaq 615 hard drive with a SSD.

Windows oem activation tool 3.0