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If you have Windows installed I think you can extract the license key from it (assuming Windows is genuine), then use it to do a clean install, or just save it
by gbl08ma 12y ago
If you have Windows installed I think you can extract the license key from it (assuming Windows is genuine), then use it to do a clean install, or just save it for posterity in case the hard disk ever dies. As far as I know this is fine WRT Windows EULA.
- sandGorgon 12y agono you cant - not in lenovo's case. The reason for this is that the keys for lenovo correspond to a very special Windows release that Microsoft specially bakes for Lenovo. You cannot use the keys on any other ISO. This is also a big problem - you cant download these ISOs (unless some *rrentbay) and Lenovo does not give you CDs readily.