Restore Windows in New HD

I got the Gift from my Brother.
Last week I find the system is bit slow. so I shutdown properly. but after that it wont restarted again.
I try many time but its just show the windows loading screen for 1-2 min then dark screen. Even some time it automatically switch to 'Auto Repair Mode'. but nothing successful.
( on Side, I also doubt some 1 hack my system through SPYWARE ).
I have another laptop, 'Toshiba' I place my Toshiba HardDrive into Predator Laptop and its working fine.

Now seems like my HD corrupted

, now I have couple of Questions.

If I buy new HD.
1. how can I get my Windows 10 Licensed Key ?
2. Is there any suggestion/Way to retrieve data ?

The System was brought around last August from UK.

Product Name: Predator PH315-51.
Manufacturer Name: Acer

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ailsa99

It looks like your system disk has bad sectors or something. You could clone the old hard drive to the new HDD, there is no need to worry about Windows 10 License Key as long as you have the original motherboard. And you could clone failing hard drive and skip the bad sectors with ease, then you will get all your data transferred and reactivate your Windows 10 again.
Best Regards.

faisaljanjua

@ailsa99, thanks for the advice. but the issue is my HD is not even starting/showing, if I connect it with other laptop through External Drive.

ailsa99

@faisaljanjua, yes, you should connect the failing HD with another laptop to clone, then transfer everything from the old HDD to the new drive.

StevenGen

First, repair your MBR (master boot record) which is a boot sector (a region of your hard disk) that holds information about the partitions of your hard drive and acts as a loader for the operating system you’re running, see here how to do it: https://neosmart.net/wiki/fix-mbr/

If that doesn't work then, it could be that your HDD could be faulty and do this:

1. If you have valuable data on the faulty HDD then, take the faulty HDD to a "Data Recovery Technician" to retrieve your data.
2. If you don't need the data on your faulty HDD, then, make a USB Windows installation media drive and do a "Clean Install" of Windows 10, see here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and use Download tool now and install Windows 10 and through the installation, make sure that you use the Key that the laptop has on its bottom for the appropriate Microsoft Windows that the laptop came with, put your details e.g. windows key (doesn't natter if its Win-7 or 8 or 8.1) as Microsoft will have an electronic registration for your laptop with the appropriate key.
3. if you don't have that key then see here for "You Don’t Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10" to this link here: https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/

faisaljanjua

@ailsa99, Thanks, I tried, but my HD is not responsive

now worried, how to retrieve Data.

faisaljanjua

@StevenGen , I placed another 320GB blank HardDrive with ISO and in BIOS Boot section there are 2 options.

UEFI
Windows Boot Manager ( Micron_1100_xxxxx )

so I selected 1st and strange whole my windows restored with all my file only for C drive.
If possible, can you tell me what exactly is UEFI? Is this Internal HARDDRIVE ?

StevenGen

Ok and firstly in what you say:
1. UEFI - "so I selected 1st and strange whole my windows restored with all my file only for C drive" which means that your Windows 10 was formatted in UEFI and that is why it restored only for C drive.
2. Windows Boot Manager (Micron_1100_xxxxx) - that is also a UEFI BIOS but with "Windows Boot Manager" that loads from the volume boot code, which is part of the volume boot record. It helps your Windows 10 operating system start. Boot Manager—often referenced by its executable name, BOOTMGR—eventually executes winload.exe, the system loader used to continue the Windows boot process.

This is what a UEFI BIOS (which is an enhanced 64-bit boot interface) and the boot order looks like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/yb/11szzz8qwtyy.jpg

This is what your Windows Boot Manager ( Micron_1100_xxxxx ) looks like:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/no/o0n7a85qii5n.jpg

This is what an MBR LEGACY (master boot record and its in 32-bit) type BIOS looks like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/o9/y0t9eq3eh86m.jpg

To explain to you what UEFI is; its an enhanced 64-bit boot interface and its translated as "The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI)" which is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware, this is a new BIOS firmware that has support for hard drive partitions larger than 2 Tbytes, also has support for more than four partitions on a drive and support for Fast booting and has a robust reliability and fault management. UEFI is found on new computers and is the way that all BIOS's will be, the MBR or Legacy is the old type BIOS ad its a DOS based 32-bit BIOS, simple.

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