Hi
I've just built a PC to replace a sony vaio laptop that had an unfortunate tea spillage on it.
As it's now completely dead and written off, I was thinking about using the licence of the laptop on the PC it replaces.
I can't find anything in the EULA from MS that says this isn't allowed, but reading the other post about activation on an HP-supplied PC with XP, I'm wondering if the PID key is tied to the laptop and can't / won't work on another hardware platform.
I'm not trying to bypass or cheat, it seems OK to me to re-use a licence that was on some hardware that's no longer functioning - after all, we did buy the lappy in the first place