first thing to do is turn off bit locker.
do not understand why people think they need it anyway, but that's another matter.
backup your important data
go ahead and clone the hard drive.
put the computer together and boot it.
it will either work or it will not.
simple case is a repair install done in vista with in place upgrade.
worst case is total new install.
in either case you will end up activating vista again. since its only been couple of weeks.
if you have to call ms tell them your hard drive died and you installed another.
mikeyhsd@comcast.net
"Nate" <Nate@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4075F02F-68AC-486C-B088-3FED3C3BCFF1@microsoft.com...
All,
I just installed Vista Ultimate about two weeks ago. I am debating on
purchasing/installing a new CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and primary Harddrive. My
question is: Is is going to be possible to clone my primary drive onto my new
primary drive, install the new Mobo, CPU, RAM without major issues? Keep in
mind I do have BitLocker enabled on my primary drive. Just curious to see if
anyone has had success doing this yet with Vista Ultimate and BitLocker, or
would it be better to start from scratch (fresh install). My concern comes
from it being a new operating system from Microsoft, and re-activating the OS
within a short ammount of time (about two to three weeks when I finally get
all the parts together). I don't want to activate the piracy flag ;-)