Solved Old Pavilion Laptop Restored To Windows 8 Pro (Cracked?)

[midou35000]

Hello,

So I had this laptop that I bought 5 years ago (Created my forum account on it. Really brings back memories lol!).

I don't exactly remember when but it was on windows 8.1 but I upgraded it to windows 10 back then when it was released. This laptop is like my grandparent's old TV that we threw in the basement for really really long (Still works though), I only use it for virtual machines (very rarely). So the hard disk failed one day and I had to find someone to fix it ( I was in Dubai U.A.E for a couple of months for my study exchange) I sent it to a repair service and they returned it fully formatted and with windows 8.1 professional so I'm wondering if it's cracked or not and if I can upgrade to windows 10 or not.

Thanks in advance.

 

[KYHI]

windows 8 / 8.1 at that time used bios embedded product keys..
so doubt if OS is hacked..

Win10 upgrade uses digital license that is hardware related - so if pc had prior win10 os upgrade
PC should upgrade again without issue

 

[midou35000]

Hey,

Sorry for the late reply. You were right about windows 10 digital license as it upgraded successfully but I had to dump the laptop because it was dead from the inside AND outside haha.

Thanks anyway.