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Can I move my copy of windows to another PC?

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Hi there I'm building a new pc and I'm looking to save some money so I was wondering if I could save some money by taking the copy of windows 8.1 from my laptop a moving it onto my new pc. Is this possible? if so how do you do it? I would appreciate any help and no I don't care if this doesn't allow me to use the copy of windows on my laptop any more.

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The laptop license is most likely an OEM license tied to the hardware, so you will have difficulty moving it to another computer.

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will i be able to use the windows install discs that came with it and just buy a cd key online

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will i be able to use the windows install discs that came with it and just buy a cd key online

Full Windows discs or recovery discs?

If you buy a license key you can download the installer or ISO image for free, I think.

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full windows

Ok, didn't realize laptops these days came with full installation discs for Windows, last time I bought one it only came with factory default recovery discs.

If the license key matches up with the version of Windows on the discs it should work.

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