Soo, I own an Acer Aspire V3-771G-9456 laptop, before the crash it was running windows 8, which came preinstalled.
The other day I had gotten a USB in order to make a recovery disk for my laptop. A few days before the hd corrupted and I had to completely reformat using its recovery partition, but then before I could make said recovery disk, the HD started 'buzzing' and needless to say...it's dead now :[
So I ordered an erecovery disk from Acer the other day, and purchased a decent looking SS hard-drive.
I have the new hard-drive installed, but who knows when the recovery disk will arrive!!
So here's where you geniuses come in:
So I'd rather not wait for the disk to arrive as it might take up to 2 weeks!
My brother informed me that I should be able to download windows 8 online and use the product key that's usually listed on the back of the laptop. However, there is no win 8 product key on the back :-/
So I'm at a loss... his laptop has a windows product key, but mine doesn't? Is it located somewhere else that I'm not looking?
I checked the bios but at first glance it didn't appear to be there, and that's as far as I've gotten.
Any advice on how to get win 8 onto my system legally without any more purchases, so that I can be using my new SS-hd laptop preferably tonight?
Also possibly useful info:
Ok go!
p.s.: I will love you forever if you help me!! TY!
The other day I had gotten a USB in order to make a recovery disk for my laptop. A few days before the hd corrupted and I had to completely reformat using its recovery partition, but then before I could make said recovery disk, the HD started 'buzzing' and needless to say...it's dead now :[
So I ordered an erecovery disk from Acer the other day, and purchased a decent looking SS hard-drive.
I have the new hard-drive installed, but who knows when the recovery disk will arrive!!
So here's where you geniuses come in:
So I'd rather not wait for the disk to arrive as it might take up to 2 weeks!
My brother informed me that I should be able to download windows 8 online and use the product key that's usually listed on the back of the laptop. However, there is no win 8 product key on the back :-/
So I'm at a loss... his laptop has a windows product key, but mine doesn't? Is it located somewhere else that I'm not looking?
I checked the bios but at first glance it didn't appear to be there, and that's as far as I've gotten.
Any advice on how to get win 8 onto my system legally without any more purchases, so that I can be using my new SS-hd laptop preferably tonight?
Also possibly useful info:
- I own a student copy of Win7 (Ultimate?) upgrade that i'm not using, which I would be fine using on my laptop, but it is not a copy, it is the upgrade...so it requires a previous OS to be installed
- I own a student copy of Windows Vista upgrade, that does not say it requires a previous OS to be installed. (I think the store sold me both so that I could have win7 at the time.
- I've tried booting with both disks, the vista loads and then freezes after the loading bar hits completion, the win7 upgrade disk makes it a step further, taking me to a windows loading screen, and then freezes there!
Ok go!
p.s.: I will love you forever if you help me!! TY!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Aspir V3 771G-9456
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
- Motherboard
- dunno?
- Memory
- DDR3 (i believe) 6144mb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Geforce GT 640M - 2gb
- Browser
- n/a
- Antivirus
- n/a