Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my laptop to Vista Home Premium and am rather pleased so far. The issue now is hard drive space and performance, as I was foolish enough to do the Vista upgrade on a 40gig HD.

The Scenario:

I previously made an image of my HD with Acronis True Image. It was a good thing as my current HD seems to be dying (defrag errors, etc). I would like to transfer my image to a new, faster, larger HD, but I'm concerned this will void my activation. Is my thinking correct?

My understanding that a hardware change such as a replacement HD will require me to reactivate Vista. If this is the case, will a memory upgrade for example, also require me to reactivate vista?

If this is an activation issue, will MS support help me out, or is it illegal to clone your HD to a new HD? If illegal, a HD failure means one must by a new license?

Thank you all for your thoughts.