shouldn’t need to worry about a windows product key if 10 or 11 was previously activated on the system and no significant changes were made to its internal hardware (like motherboard or nic). activation servers retain activation state and hardware hash, and that state is restored on reinstall. just choose ‘i don’t have a key’ when prompted during install and when windows is back it will automagically reactivate itself.
Interesting. I thought that since I completely wiped the disk and removed all bitlocker that it would be an issue. Didn’t think there would be some other place to store the CD key.
shouldn’t need to worry about a windows product key if 10 or 11 was previously activated on the system and no significant changes were made to its internal hardware (like motherboard or nic). activation servers retain activation state and hardware hash, and that state is restored on reinstall. just choose ‘i don’t have a key’ when prompted during install and when windows is back it will automagically reactivate itself.
Interesting. I thought that since I completely wiped the disk and removed all bitlocker that it would be an issue. Didn’t think there would be some other place to store the CD key.