Windows 10: Failed Hard drive leads to lost product key

Discus and support Failed Hard drive leads to lost product key in Windows 10 Updates and Activation to solve the problem; I bought a prebuilt computer many years ago that came with windows 8.1. I have since upgraded many parts and updated to windows 10. I brought my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Updates and Activation' started by GYWproductions, Oct 11, 2019.

  1. Failed Hard drive leads to lost product key


    I bought a prebuilt computer many years ago that came with windows 8.1. I have since upgraded many parts and updated to windows 10. I brought my computer to a friends house to get help in swapping out my ram, cpu and my motherboard. In transit, my hard drive died on me. That hard drive had my OS on it. My friend gave me a flash drive with a copy of windows on it just to launch the computer and make sure everything was okay with it. Now it is asking me to activate windows. The original computer that i bought online came with a product key for windows on it. I have tried many different forums on how to get your old key back but i have not found out. Its 3 in the morning and i can't call for help just yet. Anybody got another idea as to what i could do?

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    GYWproductions, Oct 11, 2019
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  2. Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

    Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown Failed Hard drive leads to lost product key :(
    I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
    I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

    Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
    SuperSoph_WD
     
    SuperSoph_WD, Oct 11, 2019
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  3. Recover a lost Product key for windows

    My Product key for Windows was lost when my hard drive crashed.

    The Mail with the product key was on the same hard drive.

    The product key belong to an upgrade of windows purchased online.

    How can I recover my product key from Windows?
     
    Marja CathrinHedlund, Oct 11, 2019
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  4. Failed Hard drive leads to lost product key

    Lost the windows product key.

    I lost my windows product key...My Hard drive was crashed.So I bought a new Hard drive.Since I lost the key.I want to install the original version of windows.Please help me to find the product key...My other staffs had came with
    this laptop has been stolen.Please help me out to find this key...
     
    Rakibul Islam.SB, Oct 11, 2019
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