Windows activation key

[Subtle]

Hello. My hard drive failed and I replaced it with an SSD. Due to the nature of my hard drive failure, I could not copy over any information, and thus do not have windows on the current SSD. I did have it on my hard drive - the one that crashed - but do not have the activation key any longer (this is a six year old laptop). How could I get the activation key? I’d rather not have to spend money on windows again. Thank you.

[banhien]

@Subtle 

The key should be already embedded in BIOS of your machine, machine will activate itself UNLESS you installed a different Windows yourself. You can use the following tools to find out

                        https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/showkeyplus/9pkvzcprx9nv#activetab=pivot:overviewtab

                        https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

Regards.

[Subtle]

Okay thank you I’ll give that a go. I just know when I booted my computer up it said there was no operating system on hard disk, which from my understand would be windows.