My laptop was upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10 in Dec 2015. The drive crashed last week and I am going to put a new one in. Will Win 10 find the COA from the previous install??? Or is there something else I need to do??
If you install the same version and edition of Windows 10 that you had installed before you can skip, do this later or "I don't have a product key" when asked for a product key and when connected to the internet Windows 10 will retrieve the digital entitlement for activation from the Microsoft activation servers and activate itself.
Thanks, that worked. Up and running.
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