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Sorry, I can't do any of that since I already wiped my entire hard drive and no operating system is installed. Here's what I did Convert entire drive to MBR or GPT > didn't work "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one."

I have a sony vaio sve14a35cxh that I'm trying to install back to windows 8 as it was originally pre-installed with. I have the boot mode set to legacy now when it asks where I want to install windows, theres a message saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's...

Right, they don't. I just checked. Can I just go to the Microsoft website, download the appropriate edition and use a generic key to download the .iso and it will detect my OEM key? I forgot, how do I check what windows 8 edition I'm using?? :S

If I post all the programs that are installed on my computer, would you kindly help "recommend" what programs to uninstall? :) This would be a great alternative than doing a clean install!

Thanks, I was thinking of just installing revo installer and remove all the bloatware from windows 8 if doing a clean windows 8 install is "Too much work". I'm more of a Windows 7 user but this laptop is for an aunt/cousin and yeah. They're using internet explorer which is highly not...

Hi Windows 8 forums, I'm from Windows 7 and don't know much about windows 8. I wanted to know if my laptop came pre-installed with windows 8 (not sure what edition), can I just boot amsdn/digitalriver/technet/RETAIL copy of Windows 8 , run a clean install deleting all the partitions on my...