Wednesday, October 21, 2015

laptop - How to get Windows product key for an out-of-support notebook with a failed hard drive?


I've bought Lenovo IdeaPad 110-17ACL notebook, with Windows 10 Home Edition (Russian). The notebook's support period is finished. Its hard drive failed completely, Linux live USB doesn't even recognize it as a hard drive. I replaced the hard drive with an SSD, and now I am trying to reinstall Windows 10 Home Edition (Russian) from a pendrive. It asks for the product key, but I can't find it anywhere on notebook's case.


notebook bottom label


Answer



From the command prompt, type "wmic path softwarelicensingservice get /all /format:list | findstr OA3" Even non-activated, command prompt should work.
You probably already know if it actually came with Win10, or was Win8. If it was 8, and not actually upgraded, you're going to have to go the install 8, upgrade it to 8.1, then 10. If there's a cheat for it, haven't found it...yet.


Have bought from folks that had no idea which version they had, and if it was touchscreen, they might have liked it with Metro and reverted.


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