Do I have to disable the Windows key of I intend to reinstall Windows on another hard drive?

I have a TB HDD which was once my main OS (Windows 7) until the motherboard and the PSU broke. I bought new equipment and could not get my old hard drive as Windows 7 above to start. I would like to get a quick flash of the blue screen of death, and the system was in the same boot loop. My brother-in-law brother let me borrow an another disk drive hard 80gig empty I was able to install the OS on and reconnect my old drive to recover all my pictures, music, videos and documents. Now I want to format my old 1 TB drive and reinstall my OS on that drive. I have to turn off the key? Is there a limit to how many times you can use your key? I could have sworn that Windows XP has been like that?

It would be similar to Apple's iTunes software, where you can disable the service before you can reinstall.

If it is a complete retail Windows 7 license and this is the same computer, you can just reinstall and reactivate automatically. If the Activation of the Internet does not work, use the phone activation:

How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
 
1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
 
(2) press the ENTER"" key.
 
(3) select your "country" in the list.
 
(4) choose the option "activate phone".
 
(5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
 
(6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
 
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

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