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Two incredibly dumb SP1 questions
Now that SP1 is out, I would like to do a clean install of Win7 and then update it to SP1 via Windows Update. I have two dumb questions:
1) Since it's a clean install, I will have to activate it again. Will the new activation invalidate my old activation? In other words, if I take my old boot drive out and put a brand new hard drive in, and do a fresh install of Win7 onto the new drive, and activate it, and then I run into some problem, can I take out the new drive, put in the old drive, and boot right up, or will my old drive no longer be activated? Note that this is on the same PC, the only difference will be the boot drive.
2) I see a lot of articles about slipstreaming SP1 onto a Win7 DVD. I'm about to make a fool of myself, but --- it looks horribly complex, and when you're done, you still have a DVD that will take an hour to install. Why do that when you can just do a fresh install of Windows, then install SP1, and then take an image that will only take ten minutes to restore? Is it only for system admins that have to install a bunch of different machines with different serial numbers?
Thanks for any help on either question.