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Activation after computer repair
I have two identical lenovo laptops. The first one was upgraded to win10 (and was activated I believe), but the display has failed. The 2nd one which was still running win8 also failed because the hard drive (ssd) stopped responding. So I took the hard drive from the win10 computer and put it into the other one, and now at least I have one working computer, but now it says that windows 10 is not activated. How can I activate it? On the back I see the laptop serial number and windows 8 sticker but there are no product keys on the sticker.
Also I'm ordering parts to fix the other one and I'm wondering if I will also be able to update that one to windows 10. Conceivably I could swap the SSDs around again once I get the other computer working and perhaps that would make it easier to activate ... but I've got to send the working one back to my daughter as soon as possible.
~Paul