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I bought a windows 7 home basic operating system i installed in the machine and some days later my Os crashed so i reinstalled my OS unfortunately i can't find my product key anymore i lost all the pack.i went over the internet to find another one i did but it has expired and now i don't know what to do because im unable to go back where i bought it

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The product-key was included in the packaging of the copy of Windows 7 that you purchased.

If you have misplaced that packaging, you need to purchase another copy of the software, in order to obtain another product-key.

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