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I run Win7 via Bootcamp and would like to free up the Bootcamp partition on my SSD and, instead, run Win7 via VirtualBox through OSX. So, my question is, since I would be reinstalling Win7 on the same computer (virtually, in the OSX partition) would I be able to use my original product key to activate the handy Win7 IE test copy and just roll with that? 

I wish I'd known about VIrtualBox before I'd partitioned out my SSD otherwise I would have saved the space and just run it virtually to begin with. I don't play games so I could care less about the performance hit - just use it for Office. 

Let me know! I'd love to run it in VM and re-use my key!";s:12:"comment_type";s:12:"contact_form";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"74.253.103.98";s:10:"user_agent";s:226:"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Browser from BMH IE GPO 03/15/11; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1; Browser from BMH IE GPO 03/15/11)";s:8:"referrer";s:36:"http://blog.reybango.com/contact-me/";s:4:"blog";s:24:"http://blog.reybango.com";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:13:"Apache/2.2.22";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:12:"/contact-me/";s:4:"PATH";s:28:"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin";s:16:"REDIRECT_HANDLER";s:10:"php-stable";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:9:"UNIQUE_ID";s:24:"UehQvUYgRBgAACkfA1kAAABJ";s:10:"SCRIPT_URL";s:12:"/contact-me/";s:10:"SCRIPT_URI";s:36:"http://blog.reybango.com/contact-me/";s:25:"WM_UCONTROL_XMLRPC_SERVER";s:16:"http://10.0.0.13";s:13:"ACCESS_DOMAIN";s:21:"s74133.gridserver.com";s:15:"DATABASE_SERVER";s:33:"internal-db.s74133.gridserver.com";s:9:"SITE_ROOT";s:11:"/home/74133";s:12:"SITE_CGIROOT";s:19:"/home/74133/cgi-bin";s:13:"SITE_HTMLROOT";s:42:"/home/74133/domains/blog.reybango.com/html";s:12:"HTTP_PHPCONF";s:9:"898662453";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:267:"image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/msword, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */*";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:36:"http://blog.reybango.com/contact-me/";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:5:"en-us";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:226:"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Browser from BMH IE GPO 03/15/11; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1; Browser from BMH IE GPO 03/15/11)";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:13:"gzip, deflate";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:17:"blog.reybango.com";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:8:"no-cache";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1004";s:17:"HTTP_X_IMFORWARDS";s:2:"20";s:8:"HTTP_VIA";s:58:"1.1 wsa.bethesdahealthcare.com:80 (IronPort-WSA/7.1.3-014)";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:50:"Apache/2.2.22 Server at blog.reybango.com Port 80
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