My daughter has a 17" Acer laptop which has seen some rough treatment at her hands. I had to replace the HDD and reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium. Unfortunately I now see that the COA sticker on the underside of her laptop is partially missing as two digits have been rubbed out.
The damaged HDD which I removed seems to partially work when docked. That is to say I can access some of the data.
So my questions,
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Can I recover the COA off the removed HDD if it resides on an accessible area of the disc? If so what tool would do it? I never tried to recover a key from a removed / un-bootable HDD.
And finally would Microsoft issue a new key based on the partial key I could give them? I'm thinking no.
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