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Hard drive failure
The hard drive in my ASUS laptop has failed - completely and permanently. Fortunately this laptop has only been used for a daily mobile use and all important data is been backed up.
I also used 'ProduKey' long ago to record the keys on this and my other units.
ASUS support is proving difficult -anything more than 6 months old seems to be ignored, but what I want to know is this.
It's been years since I installed any version of windows - it was windows 7 if I recall.
I know there have been various 'updated versions' to Windows 10 over time.
the point is this.
I have a new replacement hard drive installed.
Can I now download the latest Windows 10 64 bit from Microsoft and use my product key?
Do I have to get any essential driver from ASUS (as I say, it's proved difficult even to get its site to recognise this particular laptop and I have no idea from the list of downloads what is actually required for this particular model. I remember when putting a desktop together some time ago, there was an absolute necessity to obtain motherboard drivers for the chipset, NIC and USB3. Does Windows update now handle these or must I persevere with ASUS support?