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Retail version - transfer from a damaged pc
Up front: this is just a hypothetical question. It came up in a discussion about Windows licenses.
A Windows full retail version can be transferred to another PC, which is not the case with an OEM version.
Imagine the 'old' PC is damaged, fire, water, whatever, but I am still having the full retail version media and key.
Reason for asking here is that I believe(!) that the key on the old PC should first be deactivated, before Windows can be reinstalled(?)
If that is indeed the case, how to proceed in case of a damaged PC?
Or are the hardware details of the old PC (on the activation server) simply be overwritten once Windows is activated on a new PC?
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