Re-use of the OS licensd using the broken computer drive

Can I re-use an operating system under license from my old (broken) computer? It's a Dell disk, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, which was installed during construction? I "inherited" a HP Pavilion dv7 running Vista Home Premium 64 - bit, and the computer checks very well to be able to run it... Is there a legal problem? Thank you

Hello

Unfortunately, it's against the T & Cs of the OEM license agreement.  Also, it probably would not work in all cases as a manufacturer like Dell and HP encode safeguards to prevent installation OEM disks to be used on the machines that they were not intended.

Best regards

DP - K

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