Recent content by pawz7

thanks alphanumeric. Having discovered I have an .iso on a disc for Windows 8.1, we have gone ahead with the wipe and so have an empty HDD now. The recovery partition is still intact so we could get the .iso on and then do a recovery to get the original installed, which might have some useful...

hello, someone has given us ( the local computer nerds) a sweet little mini-tower, unwanted by its original owner nor by the recipient, who now uses a Mac. The machine is unusual in that it is powered by a lap-top battery - never come across that before - and of course we did not get given the...

thank you Tommy. I agree with everything you say, and have used Macrium Reflect myself - and before that Acronis. however the C: partition on the disk of this current machine was not accessible, so that wasn't going to work - but it is all sorted now. I downloaded the 8.1 .iso and put that on a...

yes, for your own computer, but this is someone else's. They can see to that. hopefully. :)

well..maybe. TBH I just want them to come and get it and go away again.. but I do see the sense in what you are saying :)

thanks both - I eventually realised that I needed to sign out of the first account, and then to tell it I wanted to see both Users ( so I could pass over the stuff I had rescued from one to the other). I hear what you say asvent and have tucked that info away, but as this is not my computer...

the files on the C:drive were damaged Ztruker, so that was not going to work - but the .iso did :)

I have just put windows 8.1 on a new drive for a couple. The old drive has failed. I got the husband on and he has user-folders tied to his account, but when I added an account for his wife via control panel, nothing is showing for her when I go to Users. Does that person have to put their...

I downloaded the 8.1 iso, installed that - after having to change the partition from MBR to GPT - and was not asked for PID, so 8.1 is now on there but no recovery partition - the .iso will have to do if needed in future

I didn't need it

hello, I have offered to try and get windows 8 back on a computer which has a failed hard drive. I have a new hard drive to put in and I have got the win 8.1.iso on a dvd. I think it will want me to put the PID in, which I cannot do. Someone on here pointed me to a little visual basic...

I figured if I could just image the recovery partition using Macrium, I could put that on the new drive and then 'refresh' on the Win 8 machine to get the system on there - but someone has said that won't work...

thank you Saltgrass, that is helpful - I thought there might be more to it than simply copying. The .iso would be of Win 8 would it, and I could obtain it without putting product key in? Someone else suggested I download a MacriumReflect disk image. Perhaps there is hope then....

genet, thankyou. I will see what can be done when the machine comes tonight. Edit noted and encouragement gained..

I will save the link and give that a try Miles, though if it asks for a PID I will not have anything to offer - I understand that an OEM machine with Win8 pre-installed has the product key 'hardwired' into the BIOS, so maybe it would not be needed. I can but try. Thank you for your help