markggriffiths
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Hi There,
About 3 months ago my HDD in my Toshiba laptop decided to fail on me and was unreadable. So i have since purchased a new HDD and managed to reinstall windows 8.1.
Now when i first brought my laptop it had Windows 7 on it and i purchased an upgrade to Windows 8 when they had the offer on for £29 (i think it was) to upgrade to windows 8. Then i updated it to 8.1 when that became available. Now i used the guide to install windows from this site, link is below:
eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html
As i no longer have the original email from Microsoft containing my new product key for the upgrade, i learned that windows 8 will activate itself due to the key being in the OEM but this has not happened and so i have used the showkey1.1.vbs application which searches for the key and its showing as 'Key not found' next to the OEM Key.
Any help would be greatly received
Kind Regards
Mark
About 3 months ago my HDD in my Toshiba laptop decided to fail on me and was unreadable. So i have since purchased a new HDD and managed to reinstall windows 8.1.
Now when i first brought my laptop it had Windows 7 on it and i purchased an upgrade to Windows 8 when they had the offer on for £29 (i think it was) to upgrade to windows 8. Then i updated it to 8.1 when that became available. Now i used the guide to install windows from this site, link is below:
eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html
As i no longer have the original email from Microsoft containing my new product key for the upgrade, i learned that windows 8 will activate itself due to the key being in the OEM but this has not happened and so i have used the showkey1.1.vbs application which searches for the key and its showing as 'Key not found' next to the OEM Key.
Any help would be greatly received
Kind Regards
Mark
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1