Question by : Can i sell a laptop for spares on e-bay and keep the operating system disc?
Well i have a laptop its quite new but its not gonna work anymore and therefore i am forced to sell it for about £50-£100 for spares on e-bay when i paid about six times that’s amount. Can i keep the vista disc i mean its faulty not like they will need it. Also if you know anything about computers and for some reason the vista disc won’t work on another computer please tell me!
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Answer by zer0tux
Yes, you can keep the disc since you own the license for it. And yes, it will work on other computers, providing it’s actually a Vista Operating System disk and not a System Restore disk from the laptop manufacturer 
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No, you can not. An OEM version is shipped with a computer, and is tied to that computer for life. You cannot legally install that copy of Windows on any other computer, EVER.
Anyone who tells you anything other than that is wrong.
After an OEM software license has been installed on a PC, the license may not be installed on another PC. However, the entire PC may be transferred to another end user along with the software license rights. When transferring the PC to the new end user the software media, manuals (if applicable) and Certificate of Authenticity must be included. It is also advisable to include the original purchase invoice or receipt. The original end user cannot keep any copies of the software
yes you can
Why isn’t it going to work any more? The vista OS will have a licence code on it some where which prevents it from being used on multiple computers, so you don’t just buy one disk and load it onto loads of PC’s instead of buying more disks. If the other computer had vista preinstalled on it, it will have a licence sticker on it somewhere which means you can install vista from your disk but use the licence on the other PC. If you’re selling it on E bay remember to sell it without the Hard Drive otherwise your information can be recovered from that drive.
well that disk could of been made to work for that computer only, i have a Windows XP disk that will only work om my Emachine. and you don’t have to sell the disk with the computer all you have to do it tell the people what you are selling and every thing that they get with the computer.
Here’s the problem, when you buy an operating system (or a computer with an operating system obviously) you’re not actually buying the operating system itself, what you’re buying is a license to use that operating system.
That ‘license’ is represented by a small sticker placed somewhere on the computer, probably the bottom for your laptop. Sell that sticker, you sell the license, and you no longer have a legal right to use the operating system.