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November 28th, 2017 10:00

Hard drive failure

My dell laptops hard drive failed last night and i replaced it with a ssd drive. My laptop did not come with a windows disc and I did not make a bootable flash drive. Whats the best way to reinstall windows 10.

  • ejn63

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    Posted November 28th, 2017 10:00

    You can download an ISO of the latest version of 10 from here:

    www.microsoft.com/.../windows10

    Make a bootable flash drive (use the media creation tool) and use it to reinstall Windows.

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    Posted November 28th, 2017 11:00

    The product key is embedded in a chip on the system board - the installer will pick that up.  If Windows has been activated on the system before, it's got a digital entitlement with Microsoft for Windows 10.

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    Posted November 28th, 2017 11:00

    ok but how will windows know i purchased it without a product key