Please help reinstalling widows 8

northerner

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I have a Samsung laptop that came with windows 8 installed (embedded product key), after upgrading to Windows 8.1 l lost my temper (machine became slow and unresponsive). Because of this I wiped my disc and loaded Ubuntu 14.04 (nothing wrong with this as it works fine), however I would like to give windows 8 another go, is this possible, and how would I do it without having to buy another Windows disc, considering that the product key is embedded.

Thanks
northerner
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung NP350V5C-A08
    CPU
    core i3
    Memory
    500
If you formatted the hard drive, the recovery partition is gone. Did you create the recovery disks before changing? If not you may get recovery disks from Samsung
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1 Update 1 Pro 64bit
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Pavillion H8-1202
    CPU
    I7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz
    Motherboard
    PEGATRON
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NIVDIA GeForce GT 520
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC656GR CODEC
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster S22B350
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1080 32 bit color
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB
    Keyboard
    Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
Thanks for your quick response.
I have a folder on an external hardrive called Samsung Recovery, this contains another folder named HYCW98FCAD0D0K which contains another folder called Preview. Is this what you mean
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung NP350V5C-A08
    CPU
    core i3
    Memory
    500
I have a Samsung laptop that came with windows 8 installed (embedded product key), after upgrading to Windows 8.1 l lost my temper (machine became slow and unresponsive). Because of this I wiped my disc and loaded Ubuntu 14.04 (nothing wrong with this as it works fine), however I would like to give windows 8 another go, is this possible, and how would I do it without having to buy another Windows disc, considering that the product key is embedded.

Thanks
northerner
Hi, Now if you don't have a recovery partition , You need to format all the hard drive , and then recreate partition's , then install windows from a CD/DVD of Flashdrive .
I waiting for your reply
~Tareqmohammad
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    7,8
Thanks for your quick response.
I have a folder on an external hardrive called Samsung Recovery, this contains another folder named HYCW98FCAD0D0K which contains another folder called Preview. Is this what you mean

Where did this folder come from and how did it get on the external hard drive?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
Thanks for reply

I downloaded from my laptop (thinking I could use it for re-installing Windows 8) onto an external drive before installing Ubuntu.

Regards
Northerner
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung NP350V5C-A08
    CPU
    core i3
    Memory
    500
??? How did you download it? What does that mean?

Unless you did a image backup, it's not going to do you any good. If you just copied files you won't be able to use it to reinstall the OS.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
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