Windows 10: Transfer Windows 10 license to vmware workstation

I would like to transfer my license from my laptop to a virtual machine VMware Workstation. My hard drive failed on my laptop and I have decided to run Windows 10 under a virtual machine instead fo directly on the laptop.


I installed Windows 10 on a virtual machine, but it did not find the license expected.


Is there a way to transfer the license for the laptop to the virtual machine? Or is there a way to capture the license from the data on the former hard drive? It appears that some or all of the data is on the hard drive, but the laptop will not boot off of it.



Thanks in advance for any help.

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vmware workstation 12 out now - built for W10


Right from this page;
VMware Workstation Player FAQs: Create and run virtual machines | United States

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I use VMWare extensively at work.

 

VMWare workstation 11 no internet.


VMWare Workstation 12 is out now, which fully supports Windows 10. I suggest upgrading to 12.

 

Upgrade to Windows 10 asking to uninstlal VMware Workstation

Hi Tony,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that you are facing issues while updating your PC to Windows 10 as it is asking to uninstall VMware Workstation on your PC.



Ideally, during the upgrade if any application is incompatible with Windows 10 then the setup will ask you to remove the application in order to complete the installation without any errors.



However, during my research I found that if you are using VMware 15.1 or above then you can successfully upgrade to Windows 10. You may want to try updating the version of VMware Workstation installed on the PC and then see if you are able to complete
the upgrade.



The updated version of VMware Workstation is available on the
VMware website



Let us know how it goes.



Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator