HP Pavilion 15-n297ea: Dowgrade to windows 8, but no cd key
Hello
My father has his laptop for a long time now and it came pre-installed with Windows 8. Some time later Windows 10 came out and we decided to upgrade... for the better...
We had a lot of problems since, but never had the time to work around it and down. Now that I decided to do, I discovered that there is no Windows KEY on the bottom of the laptop and I'm almost certain that I need to downgrade from 10 to 8/8.1
Is there a way to find the key then or is it possible to install the old OS without the key?
Any help is appreciated!
You might want to try HP Recovery Manager to reinstall Windows 8. You may not have all the options after the upgrade - for best results, I recommend looking at the section "recovering when Windows does not start successfully.
http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03489643
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Validation of Windows data-->
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The software licensing service version: 6.0.6002.18005
Name: Windows Vista, HomePremium edition
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BIOS valid for OA 2.0: Yes
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