A friend of mine had recently started playing the free trial and enjoying, about a week or so ago , i bought some computer parts from him to make my partner a new gaming rig, cobbled together with parts from his old machine.

Anyroad, my friend gets a new hard drive and tries to re-download the free trial, only to have it ask him for a registration key. Does it have something to do with the hard drive? Is there anything we can do to reinstate it? Making a new service account is out of the question and it'll be a while before his budget allows for purchasing the full version.

Any help that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time