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I don't think the OP is so interested in getting into the weeds with legalities or the EULA. He simply wants to know (given his circumstances) if WIn7 will remained activated on his separate partition. My guess is that it will remain activated, especially considering both are installed on the same computer. But the other issue is activation after a certain number of installs. I've done that legitimately several times over the years (changing out hard drive, etc). The worst problem I ever had (if you want to call it that) was the need to call into the automated MS number and go through a bunch of prompts to get the key activated again. And I agree, I don't imagine the Microsoft SWAT team will go breaking down his door in this type of scenario. They've got much bigger things to keep on their radar, such as people mass distributing/pirating the software.