CarvedDuck
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Hi All,
Some months back I installed Ubuntu on my faithful old Acer V5, formerly win8.1-x64.
I now need to install 8.1 as some commercial software I use about twice a year only comes in windows flavor.
I have shrunk up the Partitions and made an 80G hole for windows, but now I cannot find an **official** download link for an 8.1 .iso. The only stuff I can find on msoft site uses the Media Creation tool for 8.1 and that also does not run under Wine. No real surprises there.
I have searched for about 40-minutes and found nothing for a genuine download. The few links I did find are all now dead.
So, can anyone help with a link to the .iso win8.1 download from the real microsoft site? I do not want to have to buy a cheap laptop just to run the windows software a few times a year.
As nothing has changed on the hardware side, a clean install should Activate OK. NOPE! Do NOT want win10.
Thanks.
Some months back I installed Ubuntu on my faithful old Acer V5, formerly win8.1-x64.
I now need to install 8.1 as some commercial software I use about twice a year only comes in windows flavor.
I have shrunk up the Partitions and made an 80G hole for windows, but now I cannot find an **official** download link for an 8.1 .iso. The only stuff I can find on msoft site uses the Media Creation tool for 8.1 and that also does not run under Wine. No real surprises there.
I have searched for about 40-minutes and found nothing for a genuine download. The few links I did find are all now dead.
So, can anyone help with a link to the .iso win8.1 download from the real microsoft site? I do not want to have to buy a cheap laptop just to run the windows software a few times a year.
As nothing has changed on the hardware side, a clean install should Activate OK. NOPE! Do NOT want win10.
Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer V5
- CPU
- i5
- Memory
- 6GB
- Hard Drives
- 240GB Sandisk SSD
- Internet Speed
- 4G/LTE