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OK thanks. I already did step 1 before what I described in my first paragraph. Re my "is it important what the bios boot mode is set to during this installation" Does your step 2 pt 2 answer that? I don't quite follow. I know how to change the boot mode, I just want to know if it's...

Win 8.1 install says a required partition is missing. I read variously that the solution is to delete all partitions. Some say format the single partition. Others say just delete all partitions and leave as drive 0 unallocated. Will this leave the partition "structure" type as EIF GPT if it was...

I have win 8 repair disk and USB, which includes command prompt and also parted magic DVD.

Thank you I really appreciate your help. I am building a vocabulary as I go, I have repair, restore, now I have rescue is this the same as repair media or something different again? Or is it a macrium spelling? (bizarre, can't see earlier posts while editing my post) specific DVD/USB.

Win 8.1 install DVD created from Microsoft downloadable iso. This DVD has already worked previously. Enter language info, next screen basically a choice of install or repair, hit repair option with intention to reformat and new install, get blank blue screen nothing at all, now for about...

What does "use" or "used" mean. I'm not being pedantic I'm just trying to understand. So if the oem win install pkg was on the major manufactures hdd and my HDD is trashed and I have no backups and I download win 8.1 from Microsoft, and iinstall it on new drive and the product key in the Mb is...

You didn't define "can" in your earlier post.

I DO realise works is not the same as is legal. OK. I think we are at cross purposes re the first paragraphs of the last 3 posts. Regarding reviewed source, basically it's a black art with no reviewed source guidance and tons of third party anecdotal. And plenty of misunderstanding in every...

OK. I "think" I'm getting this. I'm not very intuitive. The para where you say "you can" you mean if it works it's leagal. The para where you say "you cannot" it sounds more to do with sheer prevention on or relevance to the new machine than legality. Is this kind of stuff all anecdotal...

Barman58 ... Perfect. So there appears (to me) to be an implication that and are at best, misleading. I think semantics is important if you are trying to impart "knowledge" and the person doesn't really know yet. The OP is unclear, but I don't "think" he is trying use OEM license for...

Just to be clear I am not disagreeing, I am just trying to understand. So, (for example) if a user uses a physical OEM disk just as an installation disk but uses a different genuine paid for (retail off the bottom of the "other" machine or "other" machine's bios what ever) product key to...

I want to over install 8.1 over my 8. My current 8 will not boot. I cannot fix the boot volume because the data it needs to do that is broken on the broken HDD win 8. The various forum advice consolidates to fixing that by reinstalling 8 / installing 8.1 then going back and trying to fix the...

Sorry for chipping in, but I'm trying to understand the whole windows 8.x installation thing (and windows installation in general) and understanding this might be part of the jig saw. If he is saying that the product key is not in the bios and if he is going to provide a product key from...

I hardly know where to begin. win 8 is not booting from HDD. linux testdisk shows no errors at all as does diskhealth, no errors! Having said this in gpparted I cannot mount it! Also if I put it in a usb enclosure and connect it to my sony vaio it auto installs drivers but the drive is not...