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I have an Acer netbook with a bad hard drive – or one that needs to recovered. So I took the hard drive from a broken laptop and put it into the Acer. It says it has three days to activate or it will automatically activate and install Service Pack 3. I have a product key with numbers.
Is that new hard drive ready to activate? Because if so, I would like to keep it for one of my other laptops that only has XP on it, and I can just buy a new hard drive and use the product key that's on the bottom of the Acer netbook. The Acer had Windows Starter; the new hard drive has Home Premium and I would like to keep it.
I'm thinking that it might never have been activated. Why would it say that I only have three days left to activate or activate automatically?
dan
Posted 2014-01-28T05:52:17.743
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yeah just wasnt for sure about useing on a different laptop.Does that matter. – dan – 2014-01-28T08:01:55.063
ok the netbook dont have the key on the bottom.so where is the key hidden in computer?can i find it in bios?i think i can use old hard drive just needs redone.how do i find the key on it? – dan – 2014-01-28T08:05:17.127
You can use Magical Jellybean to locate the product key. You can use it on a different notebook, just don't tell Microsoft during the phone activation.
– disposedtrolley – 2014-01-28T08:18:59.470hey thank.will i need any special tools or just a computer? – dan – 2014-01-28T08:47:47.420
Just the computer. – disposedtrolley – 2014-01-28T09:10:48.910