mouapp wrote:
the problem with the key finders is that they find the key you installed it with and its not installed
after the microsoft site just sent me in circles i used the key from my family computer and it all seems good now
anyone know if im gonna run into problems?
The keyfinder that richie mentioned does not require a functioning installation. It just needs to be able to see the Windows directory. Of course, it does seem you have lost that. I'm surprised, as a Linux install would not have touched it, unless you forced it to destroy the Windows partition. And now, you have presumably completely destroyed it, by telling Windows to overwrite itself with the wrong key.
As to whether you will have problems... yes, you will, I guess, as Microsoft will complain every time you try to update each machine. You only have a licence for one machine.
You may choose to avoid this problem, to some extent, by using windizupdate.
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