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Why is my S/N only 22 characters not 25?


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Guest Sensei1000
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Hello,

 

Years ago I bought all-in-one PC, it came with Win8 pre-installed and activated, but without a separate Windows DVD, so if I wanted to format and reinstall windows I'd choose recovery option from PC settings.

 

Recently the hard disk stopped working for some reason and I bought a new one but I'm not sure how to reinstall windows, there's a label at the PC with S/N but it's 22 characters, isn't the activation key supposed to be 25 characters? Did I lose the windows license I bought? What should I do?

 

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