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Tell the engineer to not activate Vista. Leave it unactivated and before the 30 day countdown expires, do the rearm trick. You can do this a maximum of 3 times. When you can no longer do it, then you actually activate Vista. You'll then have 120 days to fiddle, tweak and reinstall the system with no worry about having to phone up Microsoft to reactivate it.




Good idea, considering this.

Microsoft changed how activation checked your hardware. It is more leniant now assuming you don't ever change your HD. If it decides that your HD has changed in any way then it will assume that this is a new install and force you to reactivate. The problem the person in that article and I've been hit by this as well is that the device name can change due to driver updates.

I installed the crap buggy nVidia SATA drivers and my SATA drives came up as a SCSI device. I had problems with corruption, crashing etc... so I used the generic IDE drivers instead. This meant that my drives now appeared as a ATA device and Windows complained because the name had changed slightly.