Windows 10: My hard drive crashed and now I have to replace it. What do I do with all my software?

I literally just downloaded Micrsoft Office Home and Office 2 days ago. Today, my hard drive completely died in my Dell laptop, so I am going to have to replace the hard drive. The thing is, the hard drives don't come with Windows 10 on them. So, can I transfer my windows 10 certification to the new hard drive and will it allow me to install Microsoft office to the new hard drive? I cannot access my laptop at all to uninstall or get my product key for Windows 10 (it was automatically installed by Windows 3 years ago when it was a free upgrade). I really don't know what to do after I replace my hard drive.

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Windows 10, Occasional Error, No Hard Drive, after Hard Drive Replacement

Hi,

System corruption can cause issues detecting your computer's hard drive. For us to properly investigate on your concern, we'd like to confirm the following information:

• On which cases do you receive the startup error?
• Aside from replacing the hard drive, have you made any significant changes to your device prior to this happening?
• Have you tried plugging in the replaced hard drive to another computer to check if the same thing occurs?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

We will be waiting for your reply so we can move forward to resolving your query.

 

Replacing windows 10 after hard drive crash

Nope - no worries. If the only thing you're replacing is the hard drive, then your computer is still activated.

When you say your hard drive crashed ... did it physically crash? Control arms broke, smoke coming out of the computer, that sort of thing?

If Windows itself crashed - blue screen error - you may not have to re-install Windows.

 

Partitioning My Hard Drive Without Losing Data


Download any of the suggested programs above and fire up Youtube for a step by step instruction. Easus is a good software. But I personally use MiniTool Partition Wizard.

It will only take 5 minutes to become a professional hard drive partitioner.