Nate,

You have to do a fresh install. You'll never be able to boot your new
system using your previous hard drive contents. Toooooo much new hardware,
and Vista will be looking for the OLD hardware, but won't be able to find it.

Start fresh and call Microsoft for a new activation key. Microsoft is
usually very accommodating in these matters, so long as you have a legitimate
copy of Vista and it doesn't remain installed on the old system.
--
freddy


"Nate" wrote:
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> All,
>
> I just installed Vista Ultimate about two weeks ago. I am debating on
> purchasing/installing a new CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and primary Harddrive. My
> question is: Is is going to be possible to clone my primary drive onto my new
> primary drive, install the new Mobo, CPU, RAM without major issues? Keep in
> mind I do have BitLocker enabled on my primary drive. Just curious to see if
> anyone has had success doing this yet with Vista Ultimate and BitLocker, or
> would it be better to start from scratch (fresh install). My concern comes
> from it being a new operating system from Microsoft, and re-activating the OS
> within a short ammount of time (about two to three weeks when I finally get
> all the parts together). I don't want to activate the piracy flag ;-)[/color]