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‎05-11-2020 11:24 PM

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Product: HP 15-ay010ne
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

PRODUCT NAME : X3M81EA#ABV

HI there.. I am planning to swap my laptop's HDD with an SSD. And i am having some doubts...

What will happen to my WINDOWS 10?

I am thinking of a fresh installation... so do i need a license key?

What is in the recovery partion of my hard drive?

Kindly Help me out!

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‎05-12-2020 07:51 AM

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Hi:

 

The W10 product key is in the BIOS.  You don't need it to reinstall W10.

 

You can clean install W10 by making a bootable USB W10 installation flash drive using the media creation tool at the link below.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

After W10 has completed installing you can install the drivers and available software from your notebook's support page.

 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-15-ay000-notebook-pc-series/10862300

 

If the SSD you buy is large enough, you may also be able to use the HP cloud recovery tool to reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with your notebook.

 

Here is an info link for how to use that utility...

 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

 

You would not be able to use the recovery partition to reinstall W10 on the SSD and it is not necessary to use it anyway.

 

You can see the W10 product key in your PC's BIOS right now by using the free utility that I zipped up and attached below.

ShowKeyPlus1.0.7060.zip
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