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Odd situation. Product key and windows 10 upgrade related.


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Guest HomingJoker
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My motherboard was ruined so I replaced that, then the new motherboard had problems booting my hard drive so I had to wipe it and reinstall windows to it. The only problem is the only available version of windows I could install was windows 8 using a disc and a placeholder key. I originally had windows 10, upgraded free from windows 8.1, on my hard drive pre-wipe. A long time back I changed my case and don't have the original one. Now I need to activate windows 8 to upgrade to windows 10. The problem is I do not have my product key and it is entirely lost to me. I'm posting here before I call Microsoft and see what they can do.

 

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