I might be wrong, but my idea of how things work with regards to the windows 8 product key is that if you use it once on one computer, you cannot use it again when installing win 8 on another computer before you somehow unregister the first copy of win 8 that you used the key on, otherwise you would be able to just install win 8 on as many PCs as you want but only pay once for it.
My first question is whether that idea is correct or not.
Now assuming that I've got the correct picture, here is the actual question I wanted to ask. I've got a copy of win 8 from dreamspark and I have installed it in a VM (running win 7) and used the product key that I was given. Now I want to wipe my HDD and install win 8 (I do have a reason to do the wipe and not just upgrade). So how do I now "unregister" the product key that I used on that win 8 in a VM, so that I can use it when installing win 8 on my PC.
My first question is whether that idea is correct or not.
Now assuming that I've got the correct picture, here is the actual question I wanted to ask. I've got a copy of win 8 from dreamspark and I have installed it in a VM (running win 7) and used the product key that I was given. Now I want to wipe my HDD and install win 8 (I do have a reason to do the wipe and not just upgrade). So how do I now "unregister" the product key that I used on that win 8 in a VM, so that I can use it when installing win 8 on my PC.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7