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Well another hp all in one desktop windows 8.1 w/bing came across my bench. This one could boot to windows. I burned two USB drives, one for me. Anywho the all in one USB drive successfully installed windows on the pavilion desktop. There seems no way to burn a DVD set like Microsoft's...

I can boot a win 8 DVD and browse the recovery and os partitions from a dos prompt. Seems there might be a file that would indicate which version of windows it has installed. This all is horse crap! Why isn't there one disk for all versions of 8 and when you enter your product key in the...

Well the Asus laptop or the HP Pavillion has nothing on the sticker identifying which widows version they have but both are low budget machines. That last link is for windows 7 repair and does not help with this windows 8/uefi crap. Thanks all

I can't run the vb script from a dos prompt in repair mode booted from a disk I am not sure is the same flavor of windows as HP installed. But thanks

I've made 8.1 disks from Ms iso's for 8.1N, 8.1single language, and 8.1. None of these work on the HP. I've read there are versions with Bing are different. How do you know what version you need the the thing won't boot? There are no Certificate of Authentic sticker on windows 8. The link...

Run some bug scans. MALWAREBYTES will tell you if you've picked up some unwanted programs. Then follow up with SUPER ANTISPYWARE which detects some more bad startup apps. Finally I run SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY which has an immunize feature that I like. Then update and run your anti-virus if...

I have seen two computers, one a Acer, the one right now is an HP whose boot has been screwed. The owners failed to make a recovery disk. No matter what Fkey I press I can not get to the recovery partition. Well the HP I am currently working on did drop into the recovery partition once. I...