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btw, it is activated as well. :party: And yes in deed!

I vaguely remember seeing Windows 8.1 with Bing in the system properties a few months back, but had no clue that it was a version not supported for normal iso's. I found a place to get it, downloaded copied it to a flash drive and I am now updating it. Thanks for your help guys.

Doing more research and I am fearing Asus neglected to add "with bing" which is not looking good at the moment.

Sorry, no I am not. Used the creation tool. Never had to worry about having a legit key for a legit computer before with as many times as I have done this over the years.

Even if I do that and it works, I still can't do a system restore without it asking for a dvd or usb image.

sorry not responded sooner. Still showing default product key ending in D3VPT. Enter in the key tied to bios and won't except it. can't find number to call for help... I had it somewhere! :mad:

I Know, right? :mad: I'm hoping tomorrow I call Microsoft and they get fixed. Well if I can figure it out before hand.

Update.... Asus x551ma has windows 8.1. That said, I installed 8.1 using the key and it said not for this edition. Now I tried using "Core" edition and no edition and still won't except my product key. Any thoughts? Thanks Kudos to you Brink for your help!:thumbsup:

Update.... The version of win 8 I downloaded using the creation tool says that it doesn't activate that edition.

Found how to install without key! :thumbsup: just in case someone else need the info. create ei.cfg using notepad and copy and paste this(Without the quotations): " [EditionID] Core [Channel] Retail [VL] 0 " Save file in the flash driver under [USB_Drive_Letter]:\sources <Make sure you do...

Forgot to meantion it is prompting for a product key that is built in the motherboard. Any thoughts on that? Anyone?

Brink, Thanks for your quick response. I meant to format the partitioned space I had created. I thought that maybe their was a windows 7 key hidden because in the bios is gives you the option for win 7 or win 8.x. (Dare to dream!?) I deleted the C and D on the drive. But wouldn't let me install...

All started when I went to fix my daughters laptop because of a bad virus and did a clean install using windows 8 USB. I wanted to upgrade to 10 and discovered key blocked. Long story short I went to re-partition the drive and exeuted the volume 1 clean. I then did list volume and saw nothing...