Hard drive upgrade: how to restore windows 10 license

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kostya.gor

I have a Dell laptop that came with Windows 8 installed. I upgraded it to Windows 10 Home when free upgrade was available. Now I have to replace HD drive, which is damaged and cannot be used to boot the laptop, with a new one (SSD if that matters).

Unfortunately I cannot find a key that came with the originally installed Windows 8. What are my options?


Thanks

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