How to download copy OEM of Windows 8

Hello

My friend has so a portable license of Windows 8 (embedded BIOS) with Asus S200E computer was purchased with Windows 8 is installed. He had a new hard drive mounted following a failure of the drive. I need get the OEM of Windows 8 version to reinstall Windows. To the best of my knowledge I can't install Windows 8.1 without going through Windows 8, I understood that the Win8 product key will not work with 8.1.

My friend had not bothered to create a recovery partition recovery disk before failure.

I have managed to extract the product key from the BIOS and went to the Microsoft site www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only where I have downloaded and run setup.exe windows8

When you are prompted for the product key, I entered the 25-character code that I had extracted from the BIOS. The response was "this product key cannot be used to install a retail version of Windows 8.

Please indicate where I can download a version for use with this product key OEM of Windows 8?

Chris

Hello

My friend has so a portable license of Windows 8 (embedded BIOS) with Asus S200E computer was purchased with Windows 8 is installed. He had a new hard drive mounted following a failure of the drive. I need get the OEM of Windows 8 version to reinstall Windows. To the best of my knowledge I can't install Windows 8.1 without going through Windows 8, I understood that the Win8 product key will not work with 8.1.

My friend had not bothered to create a recovery partition recovery disk before failure.

I have managed to extract the product key from the BIOS and went to the Microsoft site www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only where I have downloaded and run setup.exe windows8

When you are prompted for the product key, I entered the 25-character code that I had extracted from the BIOS. The response was "this product key cannot be used to install a retail version of Windows 8.

Please indicate where I can download a version for use with this product key OEM of Windows 8?

Chris

You look at the very imperfect and downloader does not license for the OEM. Microsoft has improved since the Downloader to give a Windows 8.1 with update 1 .iso. This new Downloader does not require a product key, so can be used with OEM license. The main trick is to select the correct edition of Windows 8.1 that sometimes 'Windows 8.0/8.1' is sold as 'Windows 8.0/8.1 single language' or ' Windows 8.0 / 8.1N "."» If you are using the correct edition you get your product key screen entry and be taken directly to the screen of the license agreement. If the wrong edition is selected, you will be prompted for a product key. Also, I recommend using Rufus to make a USB Bootable key that will allow you to install to GPT in a UEFI BIOS with active SecureBoot. See here for more details where I demonstrate the procedure on my Dell laptop:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-Microsoft-Windows-and-Office/Download-Microsoft-Windows/download-Windows-8-1-retail-and-OEM-ISO/

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