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COA sticker rubbed out - need to activate but hard drive is toast
This is for a buddies laptop. I've attached the near dead hard drive and extracted, or tried to, the product key using Nuclear Coffee recovery keys but I'm pretty sure the key its brought up is the factory image key (my buddy tried a factory reset) not the proper COA one. (it didn't activate on a fresh install)
Does anyone has any experience with Microsoft activation support giving the COA over the phone? If they have a record of the COA on their system and my buddy can prove he owns the laptop and sends them a picture of the COA sticker that is rubbed out......
Its such a dumb idea for these COA stickers to be on the bottom of a laptop where after a few years use the are going to rub off. If Microsoft dont help him out I'm tempted to tell him to install a hooky copy