Advice on moving win 7 to new pc on same HDD

wolf0x

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If I move my hard drive in my current computer to a new one will I run into any activation/driver issues for my copy of win 7. The copy of win 7 is Home premium bought from Microsoft through the UK student deal and it was downloaded but I have a disc also and I am pretty sure it's a upgrade copy.
 

Hard Line

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I have found that if you are going from an intel based machine to intel based machine.. windows generally works you just have to updated drivers for the new hardware and call M$ for re-activation. I know this I just went from core2 duo to i7 and didn't have to reinstall except that acronis messed up the partitions when imaging to my raid set lol hidden partitions were suddenly visible etc