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do an internet search for Windows 8.1 generic key and you should get enough hits listing keys you need for the installation

For me that trick worked just fine, and I was a current Win 8 owner. The trick was to you need to start the Win 8 download first. Once the download has started you cancel the download, then you click on the install 8.1 and it now starts downloading the 8.1 ISO. Regarding the "generic" key, I...

I reloaded Win 8.1 with the newly downloaded ISO doing a clean install. For the installation I used a generic key from the MS web-site. After the installation I activated Win 8.1 with my Win 8 product key without a problem. I am all set and happy with this much faster clean install.

Thank you very much for sharing. I just had to go through a new Win 8 install then downloading patches to finally see 8.1 in the store. What a waste of time that was.

Sure enough, the pre-release ISO has the install.wim included. That could explain why "everybody" could create the Win to go. Maybe nobody has tried it with a retail version of Win 8 Pro.

Are you saying that the download version does not have the install.wim file but the DVD retail version i would buy in a store does have it? Or, that the install.wim is only in the Enterprise version, which would be hard to believe, as hardly anybody on the internet outlining this procedure...

All references i found in this forum and on the Internet are referring to the install.wim file. I do wonder, if everybody is using an enterprise version which does have the install.wim, but not the Pro version. I downloaded my Win 8 Pro ISO from MS again to check for the install.wim in the...

Just running Windows 8 from the USB stick, I just found out that it will only will work for 90 days. I cannot use my Win 8 Pro product key, thus, I will loose the Win to Go after 90 days. So back to the main question, having Windows 8 Pro, how can WE get Windows To Go to work for us?

I figured out that the install.wim is only in the enterprise version. I downloaded the 90 enterprise trial and sure enough I got the copy to the USB stick to work.

I just tried this with the Win 8 Pro ISO I just downloaded, but there is no install.wim in the sources directory. Has this changed after Win 8 is not officially available?