Dead hard drive and no product key to reinstall
I'm fixing my brother who had the HD from laptop. The guarantee was until a year ago so I'll buy a new HD online and it will be there Friday. Unfortunately, he pulled the windows product key sticker, so now that there is no product key. What should I do now?
just to be sure check the battery compartment. If the COA disappeared there are two choices. purchase of a new license or if windows was preinstalled, then you can order your manufacturer OEM recovery disks. (no key needed, because the OEM SLP key is embedded).
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Validation of Windows data-->
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Architecture: 0 x 00000009
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Validation of diagnosis:
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Description: operating system Windows - Vista, channel OEM_SLP
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N/AActivation 2.0 data OEM-->
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SSDT BrtRef DD01BRTAh! -in this case, it is not necessary.
I see from my records that a similar case has been solved by uninstalling and reinstalling the update WAT - KB971033
Open the Windows Update - click the link view updates installed on the left of the page
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