After wiping my HD with DBaN, I will reinstall Vista, are there any activation problems I could encounter?

Question

I'm selling my Vista Ultimate computer in order to make up for my £450 iMac purchase, seeing as I have a lot of sensitive info on the computer, I need to wipe it clean, I am using DBaN to do this. After I will need to reinstall Vista, but I am unsure if I will get any problems involving activation, like maybe having the license rejected, and possibly having to buy a new one (not an option!). Is it possible to simply run DBaN, install Vista, and Activate just like a first-time install? Do I need to deactivate the license key and then reactivate? I look forward to receiving your answers! Thanks.

Answer 1

Worst-case scenario you would have to call in your activation code.  However, it SHOULD install just fine with the original activation code.