HenryBukowski
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Esteemed friends;
I would like to reinstall my windows 8 OS - I feel the time has come for a number of reasons. I am one of the many people who upgraded while 8 was on offer - paying little more than £10, but not getting a disk.
I want to avoid something which happened when I once attempted to clean install windows 7 a year ago: unbeknownst to me, the act of reinstalling the OS without the disk forfeited my license. As it was explained to me by Microsoft, essentially whilst I knew that it was the same laptop going from one install to the other, the system did not know this and treated it as an additional machine in need of a new license. It would have cost more to get a new windows 7 license than to upgrade, so naturally I did the latter and jumped into window 8!
I want to reinstall now and use my existing key - which I believe I can find out simply through Belarc adviser or system info - am I in danger of the same thing happening here, and needing a new license key after clean installing?
Many thanks,
Henry
I would like to reinstall my windows 8 OS - I feel the time has come for a number of reasons. I am one of the many people who upgraded while 8 was on offer - paying little more than £10, but not getting a disk.
I want to avoid something which happened when I once attempted to clean install windows 7 a year ago: unbeknownst to me, the act of reinstalling the OS without the disk forfeited my license. As it was explained to me by Microsoft, essentially whilst I knew that it was the same laptop going from one install to the other, the system did not know this and treated it as an additional machine in need of a new license. It would have cost more to get a new windows 7 license than to upgrade, so naturally I did the latter and jumped into window 8!
I want to reinstall now and use my existing key - which I believe I can find out simply through Belarc adviser or system info - am I in danger of the same thing happening here, and needing a new license key after clean installing?
Many thanks,
Henry
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Aspire 5739G
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6600 (2.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
- Memory
- 4GB RAM Memory
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
- Hard Drives
- 320 GB HDD