recover/get windows license for laptop that has been wiped clean
a very nice company donated more than a dozen windows laptops to our school. but all of them have been wiped clean, no os, no nothing. we don't have the windows disks or license keys. how can we get or recover the windows licenses? we are a non-profit, if that helps.
you would need to buy a licenced copy of windows for every machine. 

linux systems are free and young folks at school would quickly adapt to a different operating system and probably learn more from using linux.

here's a link to a download of a good flavour of linux which you can burn on to a cd or dvd and install it on one of the laptops to try it yourself. 

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

it will be different but there are equivalents to all the programmes to which you're accustomed.
you might get a couple hundred if you part it out...ram / dvd drive / cpu / heatsink assembly / hdd / motherboard....failing that, maybe $100 for spares/repair on ebay....

the windows license wold be worth a few bucks too....(although technically, you can't resell these)

the laptop market has really dropped lately, and new laptops are dirt cheap, cmopared to what they were...unfortunately that has a knock on effect for us when we try to resell...

best idea is to part it out, or check out ebays wanted posts, see if anyone is looking for one for spares/repair.

if you feel really apprehensive aboutt aking the loss, you could always claim it off your insurance, as it was accidentally damaged, after all.... Is there any method or ways you can tell me to recover my files.. please!! : (( it matters a lot... hey there. thanks for reaching out to us about this. we can absolutely help out with this. the recovery process varies depending on how hard it is to recover the data. i'd recommend creating an appointment for your local best buy's geek squad for us to take a look and get started from there. please visit www.geeksquad.com/schedule to set up a free consultation at your local best buy. hope this will work.
1. go to windows 8 start screen and launch store.
2. once store opens, right-click in empty space and you'll get an option at top to access "your apps" as shown in following screenshot:
3. click on it and it'll ask to sign in. sign in using your windows live id. it'll take a few moments and will show a screen containing list of built-in apps which have been uninstalled.
4. just click on the apps which you want to restore and then click on "install" button given at the bottom.
5. that should do it. it will take a few seconds and the selected apps will be installed again in your windows. hi so i did a full clean reinstall of windows 10 and now it works again. must have been a settings or some software that did not work well with spotify or sonos connect app or could have been drivers of some sort. thank you annazel s for giving me tips and helping me out even tough i was so slow replying to you. I just wanted to update this thread. The team at Intel did a wonderful job of taking care of me. While they were not able to supply me with the keys to the original titles offered in the promotion back in August - they were able to offer me suitable alternatives. I'm very thankful for their help in resolving the matter. Thank you Intel - my kids are loving their new Intel-powered PCs and I'm glad I purchased them!




[View solution in original post](/t5/Processors/Expired-Master-Key-softwareoffer-intel-com/m-p/477328#M22809) clean the floppy disk drive then try again. anywho, since it's me, i would've backed up those contents to a cd/dvd or portable drive already so no problem. Hi,
  

  
Try to use HDD Regenerator, it is free for the first bad sector, sometimes that happen due to hard drive failure in the PCB (board) or due to excessive heat inside the laptop and it damage the disk, I had a lot of clients with this problem and unfortunately the most of the times, we can not recover nothing because the surface of the hard disk is really damaged, I expect you can solve your problem. 
  

  
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<https://www.mileniumcomputers.com/> Hi

That is something we do not assist with on these forums. You will need to seek help from law enforcement. See this thread from Adobe Staff: [FAQ: Can you help deblur or improve license plate detail?](https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2636455) 

~ Jane The only people who can help you are GMail:
  

  
Here is the link to gmail support website : 
  

  
<https://support.google.com/mail/?hl=en#topic=3394212>
  

  
or use this account recovery [form](https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery?hl=fr&ard=AHwGkRn_INMwM1maYDEUIHVZNP2OO33Anf9X_3sYq47TUs9Cf0K0IB4M1yZT79Q7tGqRtj6I5pU_YOJStf9xC56SlvhqWQChjjt1VG7X120zprR1Mdv5kGAWPQxPv-CIeEO1l4gGKbVhqD0LvkrQ7xMKE_xYOy6Gow&fpOnly=1)
  

  
On the other hand, if you have not used your Gmail account for over 30 days, it may have been deleted. You must then create a new one, insuring that you note your password and security question and store it a safe place, remembering where the safe place is.
  

  
Best regards