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Yeah it makes sense to use the motherboard as the input for the hash since that is the least replaceable bit of a computer. Guess I'll just hope that my OEM key still works and if not, guess I'll have to go through the phone activation, ugh.

Aaaah now that makes sense. I thought they just have some database of keys and it has some flag "currently in use", and then if you try to use a key more than once it will complain that it's already in use. So since I installed the retail copy on win 8.1 on a VM, it will have already sent the...

Thank you guys for the help! Before I go crazy with formatting my hard drives though, I just want to check that I got it all correct. So I've uninstalled the retail product key from the win 8.1 that I have installed in a virtual machine using the slmgr /upk command thingy, and I got a pop-up...

I checked it and the copy I got from dreamspark is indeed a retail version, not OEM. Now the thing is that the key that I had in here was for windows 8, not 8.1. So if I try to use a windows 8.1 installer, will it yell at me? In that case I would have to install windows 8 first and then go...

As a matter of fact I initially had windows 8 installed on this laptop. Due to a bunch of reasons I decided to wipe my HDD and install windows 7 here. So if I were to try and install windows 8 on this laptop, should it detect the product key in the firmware and be fine? Also there definitely...

I might be wrong, but my idea of how things work with regards to the windows 8 product key is that if you use it once on one computer, you cannot use it again when installing win 8 on another computer before you somehow unregister the first copy of win 8 that you used the key on, otherwise you...