Solved 8 Won't Activate

Hi I recently purchased Windows 8 (12/12/2012), I d/l'ed it and made an ISO and DVD, I installed it onto an SSD and kept my HDD as a back up and storage device.
Today my second SSD arrived and I installed it as a RAID 0 with my other SSD, all went well until I started having windows update failures, one after the other they all seemed to be corrupted or something, I was installing the large files individually and the smaller ones in batches of 3-5, then my drives were not recognised, I had "missing OS" errors and "locked drives" and "partition missing" errors.
Windows Update completely ruined my drives, I spent 12+ hours trying to get them sorted which I eventually did.
After I installed my OS I saw a logo in the bottom right hand corner of my desktop "Windows 8 Pro Build 9200" this wasn't there the first time I installed windows 8, then I got a message from the action centre asking me to validate my OS, although I had entered the product key during the installation. It failed, it said my copy of windows was only for "upgrade" and not for a "clean" install.
What can I do?

Hello EightX,

It sounds like you did a clean install with your upgrade copy of Windows 8, and just missed doing step 4 in the tutorial below for to be activated.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-windows-8-upgrade.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink said:

Hello EightX,

It sounds like you did a clean install with your upgrade copy of Windows 8, and just missed doing step 4 in the tutorial below for to be activated.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-windows-8-upgrade.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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Hi I went with the .bat file. No joy

Try the other option to refresh.

Brink said:

Try the other option to refresh.

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I am, I'm reading the tutorial. lol

LOL

Brink said:

LOL

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Success!! The only problem is that it deleted a load of stuff that I spent hours d/l......lol
Cheers!!

Great news. Sorry, that you'll need to reinstall the programs and drivers though.

Brink said:

Great news. Sorry, that you'll need to reinstall the programs and drivers though.

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...and Windows Updates there's 23 altogether including an out of date NVidia driver, shall I install it then update it or hide it and install the latest?

I'd install all of your drivers first, then Windows Updates.

Brink said:

I'd install all of your drivers first, then Windows Updates.

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Too late!! Windows Update has a mind of it's own, there was 22 recommended updates and an optional one, I unchecked all the recommended ones so I can d/l the optional on it's own when I clicked install it installed all of them.
I was expecting the worst but, when I restarted there was no failures whatsoever. Very strange.