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Computer damaged,need to reload Windows 10 Pro
When windows 10 came out I upgraded from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. The laptop was knocked off a table last week and the motherboard was damaged ( would no longer charge the battery,not a jack problem.) I replaced the Motherboard and the unit booted / charged and connected to the Internet with no problems except it was very slow.
Microsoft recognized the new Motherboard as I booted and no error messages were posted. I ran a diagnostic on the hard drive and found it too was damaged by the fall and it now has 8 bad sectors and displayed a Yellow warning it is about to fail.
I have the Microsoft License Key from Belarc Advisor and want to know if I will have a problem activating the licenses as I will have to download Windows 10 again. I do not trust trying to Clone the damaged hard drive.
I tried to ask this question at Microsoft but the forum won't allow a new question to be posted.
Please advise. Thank you for your help.