Thanks for your reply.
Q1) Activation is required to make your installation legal. Think of it as proof of license purchase. You may be able to activate by phone instead.
Q2) If you don't activate, then Windows will eventually turn off features and nag you to death until you do activate it.
-Did you faced this yourself or you are telling this anyways?if yes how many days will it give you to activate??
Q3-Q4) Since this is an OEM PC that came with Windows preinstalled, you could create a recovery drive (USB) with a copy of the recovery partition included on it to also be able to use to reinstall Windows if needed.
What brand and model number is your PC? I'll see what method they have for creating recovery media.
I have few issues on this
a-"
Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive"-didn't get that
If i click that what will happen,I see you havent ticked that while creating recovering drive and in the screenshot below its showing system image recovery,getting confused whats the difference here?:
http://www.eightforums.com/attachme...sb-flash-drive-windows-8-advanced_options.jpg
b-"What if I need to do a clean install,where will get the Win disc(files) for clean install,as original Microsoft cd was not there?"As using recovery drive will also install all that unwanted bloatwares,so its always better to go with cleans install
Q5-Q6) On OEM PCs, the product key is permanently tied to the motherboard and cannot be used to activate Windows on any other computer/motherboard. You will basically only be able to activate Windows 8.1 with that key on that specific laptop. The product key will embedded in the UEFI firmware chip of the motherboard and will be automatically detected and entered during the installation of Windows 8.1.
-Again, when do a fresh install on the same computer it will ask for activation as its doing now,so how many times will it allow me to activate?As its doing online activation everytime the key is getting registered on MS server so there must be some limitations.
Go ahead and try to "Activate online" when you are connected to the interent to see if it will activate for you. If so, then you are good to go.
Hope this helps for now,
Shawn