Windows 10 Windows 10 Requiring Product Key after reinstall

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Hello, I reinstalled windows 10 recently onto my SSD. I upgraded to W10 years ago from a valid copy of windows 7, which I believe came with my PC. If I had associated that copy of W10 with a microsoft account, it was deleted a long time ago. Windows now says it is not activated. My question is, why would reinstalling windows 10 onto a different storage device make it not recognize the copy of windows that I have? Is there a way to fix this? I've tried using cmd to find the product key but it doesn't return one, so I figure it's supposed to be a digital license.

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