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creatine
Jan 27, 2012




Teddybear posted:

I think I'm just going to treat this as if the hard drive is dying and get a new SSD. Hard drive is due for a replacement anyway. I'll install windows into the SSD and recover what I can from the old drive. Anything vital is backed up.

Don't forget you have to install windows 7 first with the cd-key you got for that and then upgrade again to windows 10

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creatine
Jan 27, 2012




Teddybear posted:

I don't know what that cd key is so this'll be a fun adventure! Woof.

Did you link to an outlook account? If so you can just use that and it should activate

creatine
Jan 27, 2012




Fruit Smoothies posted:

Just FYI this isn't true. If you've activated on Windows 10 before, your system information will allow you to auto-activate.

Ahh good to know. Last time I had to reinstall windows 10 it made me install 7 then upgrade

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