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Which windows cd computer repairer/shop use to reinstall fresh copy of windows by using customers COA?

April 26, 2017CD Computer Computers internet reinstall repairer Software Windows

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Which windows cd computer repairer/shop use to reinstall fresh copy of windows by using customers COA?

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Any legal OS cd is just a copy of that OS and they are all the same. The reason the COA is on every retail computer is for re-installation purposes, and is actually a different number than the machine code used at the manufacture. Microsoft knows what COA’s are registered to what machine codes and unless you change a major piece of hardware (motherboard, harddrive) it will always re-authorize no matter how many re-installs of the OS you do.

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Any OEM windows installtion disc should work, that matches the version origrinally installed. I have had issues installing OEM XP SP2 on a machine that originally had XP SP1 becuase it would not recognise the code, but normally the repair shop should be aware of this.