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Brennan Price
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Ok, so I built my brother a PC for christmas and for some reason the hard drive is corrupt and will not load windows (10) no matter what I do.

 

Anyway, so I want to ask...

 

If I bought a new hard drive, can I still use the same OS and product key?

 

And, Is there any way I can get the Product key from anywhere at a cheap price?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Brennan Price

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Ok, so I built my brother a PC for christmas and for some reason the hard drive is corrupt and will not load windows (10) no matter what I do.

 

Anyway, so I want to ask...

 

If I bought a new hard drive, can I still use the same OS and product key?

 

And, Is there any way I can get the Product key from anywhere at a cheap price?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Brennan Price

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G2a, product keys woo, but anyway, uh idk how to handle corrupt but I think that if it's Oem it lives and dies there, it's it corrupt go to dats recovery place if it's that important.

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Already have, the guy just simply said no. Well, I wanted to ask you guys on some of this stuff anyway

stop ignoring me!!

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Ok, I'm sorry

when I get home don't u dare go to sleep

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Why not? I've now got a rule from my parents that I should be off by pm to help with my bad sleep problems which were informed by my doctor.

I sleep at 6pm wake at 3 am call that bad.

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I sleep at 6pm wake at 3 am call that bad.

No, cuz that is 9 hours sleep. A lot of the time I get much less than that. Otherwise I do not understand ur comment, so all I'm gonna say is that we are in different time zones so stop complaining!

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No, cuz that is 9 hours sleep. A lot of the time I get much less than that. Otherwise I do not understand ur comment, so all I'm gonna say is that we are in different time zones so stop complaining!

I will complain I used to sleep at 11pm to 1 am and wake at 5am

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Yeah used to, I wonder why?

I

Sometimes slept in.

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How does that work? I really dont understand what ur trying to say here...

I don't either, can you buy me something off of aria pc

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if you are just replacing the hard drive i think windows will activate if you use the same key. you might have to use the automated phone service to activate it, but i am not entirely sure. 

If you have the added security you'll need to download the Microsoft Account app that sends you a verification code that you just have to agree to and it'll continue with what ever changes that you're trying to make.

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If you have the added security you'll need to download the Microsoft Account app that sends you a verification code that you just have to agree to and it'll continue with what ever changes that you're trying to make.

Thanks, although it doesn't really matter now as I have formatted the HDD so it will never be recoverable. I am then gonna buy an SSD and a product key so that it will be more reliable than a mechanical HDD that was used previously.

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