SSD Laptop Upgrade and W7 Key

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EA_annoys_me

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So I just decided to upgrade my laptop from a standard 5,400 rpm HDD to a SanDisk SSD to increase boot speed and program speed and clean up a dirty drive. But my question is:

Can I use the same Windows 7 key on the bottom of the laptop to reinstall a copy of Windows 7 from a matching 64 bit OS W7 that came separate of the computer? Of course without violating the OEM contracts of W7.

I would still be using the same hardware in the laptop that came with the key aside from the hard drive.
 
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FYI as one whom did something akin to this. Install clean install to SSD, then map the Temp Files, Profiles (My documents, etc.) to the HDD. Install all games / normal programs (including in the future) to the HDD and you will get the benefit from the OS but this won't resolve programs still loading slowly.

Why not put it all on SSD? Because SSDs have VERY LOW read/write lifes, thus they wear out VERY fast as compared to a HDD. Keep rewriting where the icons are stored, log files, temp files to be added and deleted and added and deleted and addded and deleted repeat repeat repeat BOOM SSD failure. So it takes soem management but I love my 30sec reboots.
 
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Thank you for your info! My question is to that, can I use a Windows 7 DVD that I already have from a different W7 purchase, it is 64 bit to match my laptop's key OS. I can definitely burn the recovery partition to a DVD.
 
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