You may also be told that your version of Windows was licensed for your hard drive, not for your computer; This may be what was intended, but I have often repl

You may also be told that your version of Windows was licensed for your hard drive, not for your computer; This may be what was intended, but I have often replaced hard drives and worked the 'Recovery Disk Magic' with them without any issues whatsoever. [apart from the glacial speed of the recovery software - but I assume that there is a sector-by-sector check of the hard drive in there as well]