can i do this?

[radical guild]

can i grab the old OS drive out of my laptop put it in a desk to the clone the OS on to a ssd with out typing in a product key 

[wraptor]

2 minutes ago, radical guild said:

can i grab the old OS drive out of my laptop put it in a desk to the clone the OS on to a ssd with out typing in a product key 

Yes you would be able to succeed. 

Though Windows is going to detect the change of motherboard and invalidate the key anyways.
Windows OEM keys are bound to the Motherboard, sometimes other components aswell.

[radical guild]

22 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

Yes you would be able to succeed. 

Though Windows is going to detect the change of motherboard and invalidate the key anyways.
Windows OEM keys are bound to the Motherboard, sometimes other components aswell.

do you know were i can find my key for windows 

[wraptor]

1 minute ago, radical guild said:

do you know were i can find my key for windows 

What OS version are you running?

[radical guild]

2 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

What OS version are you running?

the laptop came with windows 8 but then i upgraded to 8.1 then to 10 

[wraptor]

If you are using Windows 10/8.1/8 or 7 try running command prompt as administrator and type this:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

 

[radical guild]

4 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

If you are using Windows 10/8.1/8 or 7 try running command prompt as administrator and type this:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

 

do product keys change

[wraptor]

16 minutes ago, radical guild said:

do product keys change

No, but once you put it into your new machine, It'll invalidate it because its an other motherboard.

If that happends, you can call microsoft (Number for your region/country will be at their site) and go through the automated system to revalidate the key.

[radical guild]

1 minute ago, tv15dsi said:

No, but once you put it into your new machine, It'll invalidate it because its an other motherboard.

If that happends, you can call microsoft (Number for your region/country will be at their site) and go through the automated system revalidate the key.

ok thanks