[pnutjam]

Not true, you can reinstall the same version and it will pick up the licensing from the BIOS. You can even extract the key from the BIOS to use on a VM (same hardware) if your running linux.

It's even very easy to get the install media direct from Windows, not like back in XP days.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...

[tga]

Thanks, this used to be an issue at least Windows 8. I'm happily surprised if it's now as easy as downloading the ISO from Microsoft and reinstalling it on an OEM machine.