Going to be upgrading my gaming rig very soon, and consequently doing a bunch of hardware shuffling in the house.
Long story short:
- New internals going into my PC
- My current internals going into mom's computer
- Mom's computer current internals being repurposed as an HTPC in the family room
Both mine and my mom's computer have retail copies of Win7 Ultimate installed. My question is, given that the internals from my mom's computer (cpu, mobo, HDD) are simply being repurposed, nothing that would require an OS to be reactivated is changing, I probably wouldn't have to reactivate right?
Therefore, because I have a new SSD with my new internals, I plan to do a clean install of Win7 Ultimate which would require reactivation. Also, because I'm giving my mom my current SSD and doing a clean install of Win7 Ultimate, that would require reactivation as well.
Am I right in saying that even though nothing is changing hardware-wise with the current internals from my mom's computer being repurposed as an HTPC, I will either:
- Not be able to activate Windows on my mom's new PC after clean install (if it even allows me to do a clean install with another installation already existing on another hard drive)
- Or not be able to continue using the already-installed Win7 on the repurposed HTPC with internals from mom's current computer
Apologies if this seems extremely confusing or if I'm making it sound more complicated than it should be
