harddrive change, reinstalling and reactivating?

[menos]

I run DCS on a bootcamp partition with WinXP Pro on a Macbook Pro.

 

I plan to change the original 250 GB harddrive with a new 500GB model.

 

I have cloned my Mac OS X partition over to the new harddrive, which works fine (bootable, no issues).

 

The next steps are:

 

1) exchanging the harddrives,

2) reinstalling Windows on a fresh partition,

3) reinstalling DCS.

 

I understand, that during the process I have a 3 point punishment for changing the harddrive and another punishment for the possible change of the mac address (I am not sure about this though).

 

As far, as I understand, I do not brake the 12 point boarder and have not to reactivate DCS, nor loose I any activations in the process.

 

Is this correct?

[Distiler]

You don't loose an activation because you don't exceed 12 points but I think you still need to deactivate. If you exceed 12 points, deactivation won't work, you'll need to activate. At least is how I understand from reading the notes:

 

"The deactivations can be utilized to save activations when altering your hardware/software. Activation will be required if the hardware/software changes exceed 12 points"