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Clean install on new following hard disk failure
Hello,
I've had a look on the upgrade paths thread but i'm not sure it covers my particular scenario.
I recently installed a clean version of Win 7 Pro on my machine that had Vista Home Premium on originally. All was fine until my hard drive gave up the ghost and failed. I have another new hard drive in the machine and I wanted clarification on a few points:
With the new hard drive in, will my machine boot direct from the DVD as I have been unable to change the BIOS settings?
I have already registered/activated this copy of Win 7 (prior to hard drive failure). Will I be able to do this again or will Microsoft disallow it due to it already being registered?
I still have the Vista OEM sticker on my machine - will I need to input the code somewhere on installation?
If anyone could help, I would be very grateful.
Cheers, Scott