Also i tried a temporary key and was still given the error.
But im getting the product key to activate windows window and i dont know how to find the original one like i said the pc would not boit at all when i got it so no i didnt get the media from the pc nor do i have installation disks created by the pc and no i dont have a confirmation email containing the key either. I try restoring, resetting and advance options to fix startup but tge only progress ive made in trying to boot into windows is by reinstalling from my installation media on the usb drive.
I shouldnt have to purchase one since they got rid of external keys for this reason. Seems it's just Microsoft's way of scamming another £100 for a lame OS that they're struggling to sell anyway.Ive looked exhaustively for days and no one can tell me how to reinstall windows 8 on my hp pavilion 11 x2 notebook pc (11-h010nr) after having an issue with getting it to boot on at all i was finally able to create a usb drive that will boot it however it does not find the product key like its suposed to automatically do. really annoyed now - what is the point of this built in BIOS code to make it "easier" if you can't re-install Windows 8 with it when the hard drive fails. I've got a Fujitsu laptop here and the hard drive on that failed so couldn't re-install Win8 that way, plus the "recovery discs" that Fujitsu supplied with it are totally corrupt and get part way through Windows 8 recovery with a message that setup files are corrupt - so I found a website that offered a clean ISO of Win8 - installed it and it says it's not a valid CD key, used Windows 8 Product Key Viewer to see the product key and tried it on Windows 8 upgrade site - again "sorry this is an OEM key you can't install the retail copy" - called up Microsoft - they were about as useless as a chocolate teapot - "sorry you need to contact Fujitsu it's not our problem" - yeah it's your software that's malfunctioned!!!! and even tried Fujitsu - only answer I get from them is to use the recovery discs which were supplied - but they're corrupt!!! also managed to get another computer with BlindWrite to create an ISO of the fujitsu recovery media only to find it's too big to go on a DVD-R!! I've got the same problem here and it's a right pain in the backside.
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