Is it legal to download an ERD in Windows 8?

Hi people,

I had a lot of problems of cloning of HARD drive to my laptop with Windows 8 for one SSD after-market. My last attempt was to follow the article below, I found in this forum:

http://www.ssdfreaks.com/content/664/how-to-clone-HDD-to-SSD-with-Windows-7s-own-software

Unfortunately, Windows 8 refuses to create an ERD for me (-error "the parameter is incorrect (0 x 80070057) '), maybe because I removed some HARD drive partitions even if the article says to do. This is necessary to complete the instructions in this article.

Is it legitimate to download a disk to repair Windows 8 on the internet because I can't build my own? Without this disc, I can't transfer Windows 8 on my SSD and I might be back to Windows 7 because I appreciate the performance gains of an SSD on all features of Windows 8. However, I desperately want to have my cake and eat it :), but am running out of ideas.

Any thoughts would be appreciated kindly.

Kind regards

Chris

Reinstall the original hard drive with the installation of Windows 8 of Dell.

See if you can retrieve the product key.

Here are four utilities, which can display your product keys if they are still there:
Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
(He did a good job of providing a wealth of information.)

Also: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml
and: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
and RockXP: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4138.html which has additional features

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Use the product key to a facility (this is not guaranteed, because I don't know if the link below is only for Windows 8 Pro).

Create your own bootable copy:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-GB/Windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

then:

http://techingiteasy.WordPress.com/2012/11/07/part-2-How-to-upgrade-using-the-Windows-8-Upgrade-Assistant/

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