Hello,
I have seen posts about reinstalls of Win 8/8.1 on OEM PCs will automatically use the licence key in the BIOS, but I'm looking at doing something a little bit different and I was wondering if people could tell me if it would be an issue.
I have a standard image that will be deployed onto a variety of hardware. I plan to use Symantec System Restore 2013 R2 to do the deployment as this has an option in the restore to load the OS onto different hardware, and the ability to add extra drivers if necessary. I believe this option does something similar to SysPrep during the recovery. Some of the target hardware will be systems with OEM/BIOS licences, others using the older manual key system.
I have built the image on a VMWare system that obviously has no BIOS key. When creating the image I skipped the licence key section as the plan is that each machines existing unique legitimate licence key would be added during the deployment.
The existing key would be found before the deployment with the script I found on this site
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/27129-product-key-find-windows-8-a.html#option5
And it would be added back to the system after the deployment using "Activate_Windows_Upgrade_after_Clean_Install.bat" also found on this site.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-windows-8-upgrade.html
So given my image was created without the BIOS key, would deploying it onto systems and trying to use the BIOS licence key be a problem?
Thanks
I have seen posts about reinstalls of Win 8/8.1 on OEM PCs will automatically use the licence key in the BIOS, but I'm looking at doing something a little bit different and I was wondering if people could tell me if it would be an issue.
I have a standard image that will be deployed onto a variety of hardware. I plan to use Symantec System Restore 2013 R2 to do the deployment as this has an option in the restore to load the OS onto different hardware, and the ability to add extra drivers if necessary. I believe this option does something similar to SysPrep during the recovery. Some of the target hardware will be systems with OEM/BIOS licences, others using the older manual key system.
I have built the image on a VMWare system that obviously has no BIOS key. When creating the image I skipped the licence key section as the plan is that each machines existing unique legitimate licence key would be added during the deployment.
The existing key would be found before the deployment with the script I found on this site
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/27129-product-key-find-windows-8-a.html#option5
And it would be added back to the system after the deployment using "Activate_Windows_Upgrade_after_Clean_Install.bat" also found on this site.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-windows-8-upgrade.html
So given my image was created without the BIOS key, would deploying it onto systems and trying to use the BIOS licence key be a problem?
Thanks
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Win XP, Win 7, Win 8, Win 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel Core I7 3930K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVidia GeForce GT 630
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 x ViewSonic VX2370