Install Vista Ultimate on a new disc

Hello world

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my 320 GB internal hard drive.

The Vista disc that I have, cannot be installed on a pc.

Unfortunately, this disc has become unstable and I'm afraid it will fail and I will lose everything on it.

I am about to buy a 1 TB drive and wish first, partition, then install Vista Ultimate on it, then transfer all of my original him.

A simple enough thing to do I guess.

However, I learned by several people that I won't be able to install Vista on drive 1 TB, as Microsoft will see this facility as a "second installation on a second pc" and so I will not be able to validate my drive.

Can someone tell me if this is correct

Thank you very much

Grifoto

The game, 28 November 2013 15:49:55 + 0000, Grifoto wrote:

Hello world

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my 320 GB internal hard drive.

The Vista disc that I have, cannot be installed on a pc.

Unfortunately, this disc has become unstable and I'm afraid it will fail and I will lose everything on it.

I am about to buy a 1 TB drive and wish first, partition, then
install Vista Ultimate on it, and then transfer all of my original to it.

A simple enough thing to do I guess.

However, I was informed by several people that I will not be able to
install Vista on drive 1 TB, as Microsoft will see this
installation as "a second installation on a second pc" and so I will not be able to validate my drive.

Can someone tell me if this is correct

It's not correct.

You have a copy of Windows retail or an OEM version? Or we can
be installed only on one computer at a time, but a copy has an OEM
additional restriction: his license it permanently binds to the first
computer, it is installed on and it can never be moved to another.
However, even if it is an OEM copy, change the hard drive does not work
another computer and you can certainly do that and use
your copy of Windows in this regard.

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