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Changed laptop's HDD to SSD, want to transfer windows 10 key
I'm typing this on the laptop right now. HDD it came with was the slowest hard drive I've ever encountered in my life, so I've swapped it out for a snappy SSD. Rather than cloning it to the SSD, I did a clean install, because I don't want all of acer's bloatware.
I've read that my laptop must have come with a Win 10 OEM key, and that those aren't transferable between different systems. Because this is the same system, with only a different hard drive, will it work? And how do I do it if I can?
I'm using unlicensed windows 10 right now, and I'm wondering if I can use the key that my original hard drive still has on it.
Of course the laptop didn't come with a key on the bottom, or in the manuals, like older versions of windows did.
Thanks