My current Hard Drive is shitting the bed, explorer crashing
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My current Hard Drive is shitting the bed, explorer crashing every 30 minutes and all other apps freezing in tangent. Can't restore windows because I no longer have the digital key I bought it with, and Microsoft is too obsessed with money to fix their current customer's issues, and would rather prevent loophole piracy. So fuck it just going to upgrade to an SSD, as this issue has gradually worsened and I'm blaming it on failing hardware.
Any recommendations? Also is there a way to get around paying for Windows again? I refuse to give more money to that disgrace of a company.
>>54472399
>Also is there a way to get around paying for Windows again?
upgrade to new SSD/HDD
clone OS partition from dying drive
OS remains activated
I'm also looking into SSD, are the SanDisk SSD Plus any good? There's one on Amazon for 63 euros on sale.
>>54472399
Download W7 iso and use the tool to unlock/"legitimize" it then get a free W10.
get new SSD
replace OS with user-friendly linux distro like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or Manjaro
>>54472399
honestly you should buy a hyperx fury i have one and they are so cheap but it is really fast and shit nad have had mine for like a half year! but you should get a mechanical drive too :^)
>>54472399
>dl and run produkey
>save windows key on your nas or backup drive
also i've heard that kmspico works if you're too pleb to get a legit key from somewhere
Kingdian s280 looks good according to /csg/ with solid speeds and cheap as fuck.
Most SSDs perform about the same when it comes to booting, opening programs, loading gaymes and stuff like that. If you do content creation or care about benchmark scores, get an 850 evo. If not, Sandisk Ultra II 960gb is going for $180-200.