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Originally Posted by Matt D
Can you buy the OEM version on its own, or do you need to buy it with something?
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Virtually on it's own mate - apparently an IDE cable is a qualifying part so you can buy Vista and get a free cable!
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Originally Posted by ZrByte
Well from whats being said its no different to XP so a hdd failure or reformat wouldnt be a problem. On the other hand, if your motherboard died, you replaced it with a different model and tried to reinstall you might be in for more problems. Wheras with XP at the moment you just ring them up and they give you a new code, well thats how its always worked for me anyway.
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...and if I did decide to replace my system board and it didn't activate, then a quick call to Microsoft saying my hard disk died and I had to replace gets the same result - activation.