

The possible supported operating system download options for the Z440 are: You can download Windows, free, from this link, "Heidoc". Any digital license on the local PC relates to the HP factory installed operating system. It (W 10) does not create a digital license on the local PC. Updating to Windows 10 creates a digital license which is stored on Microsoft W 10 servers. Hopefully, that software can be downloaded or purchased from HP, or purchased from or from (although this latter web-site seems to currently be offline). Then, using the HP-modified OEM version of the original operating system will use that product-key to successfully activate. If the computer was originally factory-loaded with Windows 8 or Windows 10, there will be a product-key embedded in the motherboard. Presumably, the seller has not changed/removed any other hardware components since activating (or has re-activated with the changed hardware).Ģ. Changing the disk-drive does not seem to violate that "same" requirement. However, if the computer was upgraded to Windows 10, and Windows 10 was successfully "activated", then a "digital entitlement" has been granted, to allow a re-install of the "retail" version of Windows 10, at any time, at no cost, onto the "same" computer. If the computer was originally factory-loaded with Windows 7, there will not be a product-key embedded in the motherboard.

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