Hello Everyone,
I am sure these question will sound very noobie to most of you, I apologize in advance
A few months ago I bought a used laptop from Ebay. The seller also gave me a "windows 8 reinstallation DVD".
Recently the SSD drive failed, so I had to replace it with a new one.
After installing in the new drive windows 8 with that DVD, it tells me that the licence is already in use by another computer.
I am quite confused on how the key licensing works on windows 8: I run a product key finder on the new installation and I noticed that the BIOS and windows 8 have the same key; so the questions are:
- why windows 8 did not see the windows key matching the bios one as a proof that I am reinstalling it on the same computer? Did the bios one got overwritten during the new installation?
- I can still access most of the files and run programs via DOS prompt in the failed ssd drive. Is there anything I can do with that drive that would help me reactivate windows in the new one, like recovering a product key?
thanks
Yossarian
I am sure these question will sound very noobie to most of you, I apologize in advance
A few months ago I bought a used laptop from Ebay. The seller also gave me a "windows 8 reinstallation DVD".
Recently the SSD drive failed, so I had to replace it with a new one.
After installing in the new drive windows 8 with that DVD, it tells me that the licence is already in use by another computer.
I am quite confused on how the key licensing works on windows 8: I run a product key finder on the new installation and I noticed that the BIOS and windows 8 have the same key; so the questions are:
- why windows 8 did not see the windows key matching the bios one as a proof that I am reinstalling it on the same computer? Did the bios one got overwritten during the new installation?
- I can still access most of the files and run programs via DOS prompt in the failed ssd drive. Is there anything I can do with that drive that would help me reactivate windows in the new one, like recovering a product key?
thanks
Yossarian
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8