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• Windows 8 - Refresh PC pre-installed Windows key recovery or installation DVD disc

  Windows 8 - Refresh PC pre-installed Windows key recovery or installation DVD disc

  The problem is that the number of keys for Windows 8 is required for this operation, and I can't get it. I got Windows8 pre-installed when I bought the laptop, so I don't have the installation DVD, I did not collect the number of keys in any documentation or found on the laptop.

  What can I do to make sure that if I can restore Windows 8 and all my data on the laptop?

  Thanks for your help

  To put it bluntly, YOU n 'T NEED a KEY! When you reinstall Windows 8, it is automatically activated from your key incorporated in the Bios. There is no need for to go you into the Bios to get the key. With Windows 8, it is how it is done. Hope this helps and if you need another post to help and we will be happy to help you.

  The above opinion is mine and mine nothing and does not necessarily reflect that of Microsoft, it's employees, or any other Member of this forum

  "When we try to take anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."-John Muir

• Key recovery of Windows Xp after the upgrade to 7

  I seem to have misplaced my windows xp key, but still have the drive, and I upgraded to 7. I need to re - install windows. is there a way to get the key of vista? (and yes I'm trying produkey, and I can see my 7 but not vista)

  Windows XP or Vista? Because your title does not have Vista.

  Windows XP/Vista came preinstalled on your computer or a retail license?

  If it is a retail license, see the following resources:

  Lost or misplaced product key (certificate of authenticity)

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/824433

  How to get a replacement product key?

  To replace a Microsoft product key, you must contact Customer Support and Microsoft. To locate the phone number, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; EN-US; CNTACTMS

  For more information on this topic, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811224

• key recovery windows without order number 8

  I indeed two days there was recently a problem with window 8, I had upgraded to the offer and received the product key for windows 8 and windows media on my account hotmail around January 2013.

  In any case I had to take the option restore window 8, during the process, it has encountered an error and could not complete and ask media disc, (which I didn't upgrade online) and now the laptop will no longer start up, when I treid to get product keys from my hotmail account containing the product keys for windows 8 and windows media key , whose hotmail seems to have deleted all the emails before the 04-02 - 1013.

  When I try to recover info is Endre for order number which was also on hotmail what or who I can get the information save product keys, I'll be able to get a windows disc 8 somwhere but need the keys to the prod?

  Hi Graham,

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing.

  I suggest you go to the following site.

  Electronic download Support software phone numbers:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/ESD-support-phone-numbers

  Locate and call the phone number for your local area. You will need to provide your personal information, such as the email address you used, credit card number, etc. They'll send back the confirmation e-mail. When you get the product key, print or copy him and put it somewhere safe.

  I hope this helps. If you have any other queries/issues related to Windows, write us and we will be happy to help you further.

• Lost Windows license key

  I have an old Compaq 610 Notebook PCand the hard drive failed, unfortunately.  Can I replace the hard drive, but the Windows licesnse key sticker is so worn that I can read is no longer the characters.  How can I retrieve my license key?

  Sorry, but there is no way to retrieve the PID key that was printed on the COA Microsoft sticker. Further, the key that would have been recovered since the failed hard drive now is not the same as that on the sticker. You will need to use the recovery/restoration of HP/Compaq media to install the factory OS on the new hard drive. If you do not have this media, you can be able to demand for HP business support.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• Satellite: Windows product key

  My laptop crashed during a firmware launched by Toshiba software update, I could not recover the soft recovery on the laptop and possibly (accidentally) formatted the drive using recovery software.

  I asked a USB recovery (£40 +!) and used to get the laptop works (or almost).  Now I be prompted to enter a Windows product key.

  The laptop was bought ex-affichage accompanies so no documentation and has no attached Windows sticker.  How can I get the key to enter?  HP would have a record or Microsoft?

  C50 - B - 14 D

  8.1 x 64

  6E107931P

  I had upgraded to W10, but the recovery that struck on the head.

  Any help appreciated.

  I have the HP Envy and asked HP support via chat there if they had the product key... I spoke to a very helpful guy called Paul... He sent me the product key by using the serial/model number...

  He also said I could try running the prompt (run as administrator)

  WMIC path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

  It comes down to the same product key that Paul sent me

  Stuart

• Question about "Windows 8.1 DG to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit" and Windows product key

  I have acquired a recnet ThinkPad T450 fdrom a retialer online (NCIX) and I hav ea a few questions about the installed Windows operating system.

  Before I just go further, HRE are some information about my particular system.

  Lenovo ThinkPad T450

  Model: 20BV00BUS

  CPU: Intel Core i5-4300U

  RAM: 4 GB

  Under the product description, it was stated "Windows 8.1 DG Windows 7 Pro 64." My understnading, the ThiknPad has been installed with Windows 8.1, but downgraded to Windows 7. There is also a Windows 8 Pro badge sticker at the bottom of the matchine.

  Is it possible, at the end of the user/consumer, to alter the functioning ti repressive back Windows 8.1?

  Can I create a recovery with Windows 8.1 disk?

  A separate but related matter relates to the Windows product key.

  I noticed the Ultrabook do not come with a sticker / label with the Windows product key (i.e. COST). Some quick research indicated that the Windows key is programmed into the BIOS.

  This indeed true (I wish an audit)?

  The key is visible in some way (for when you need to reinstall the operating system. I have not tried to enter the BIOS at the moment)?

  Thank you for taking the time to consider my question.

  Kind regards

  Victor L.

  Hi Victor,

  I'm in the same boat as you type, but want to keep the facilities of Windows 7 rather than pass them to 8. Just like you, I buy our Lenovo from different retailers and they come with windows 7 installed through the Windows 8 lower upgrade program.

  We had one or two laptops come with a recovery media (for windows 8/8.1 only) but have noticed that all laptops now come with no physical media or codes for the recovery. WIN8 stickers, you described is more came with the license key on the sticker (it comes to stop you using the same license again and again, microsoft will get more money if you buy another license etc.). I also saw that the key is essentially located in the BIOS but were not able to test what we use any of windows 8. I use it even at home!

  To answer your question, you can get a recovery of Lenovo for Windows 8 media!

  Go to the following link: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/lenovorecovery

  (It help you understand why this method is used on this page as well)

  Select Start,

  Please have your serial number of your laptop, (to find it go to this link: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/find-product-name)

  If you qualify (which you will very probably) Lenovo will ship for free, recovery disks give it a go, took me 2 minutes.

  I hope this helps.

  Best regards, Max.

• New Y570 - a key recovery creates only 2 DVD

  When I run a key recovery - create the recovery disk - factory default disk recovery it says it requies 3 DVD, but it only creates 2 and then says it's 100% complete and finished. I have not touched one of the partitions. I ran two times and each time it created two DVDs. anyone know why I am not create 3 recovery DVDs? I am running Windows 7 and OKR 7.0

  
  

• A key recovery

  My G560 was puschased in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by a friend last March 2012 and was brought here in the Philippines and has been given to me. the COA sticker says it has Windows 7 Home Basic OS, but when I opened it, there installed Win 7 Ultimate. now, I get a windows not genuine notification.

  I also found out that my hard drive partitions 3, C, D, E.

  I would go back to my machine to its supposed original OS, but I do not have the original CD installation that's why I think using the one key recovery.

  This will be my OS to its original state? will it affect my important files (located in the partition the drive E) should I choose the one key recovery?

  Right click on computer, select manage. Look in disk management.
  Must have 4 partitions if the stock oem partitions. But actuallyon mine only two were assigned drive letters.

  Windows 7, some versions have an illiterate boot partition. The Ultimate Ultimate version uses a boot partition. Think OEM are extra partition for future updates and also Windows will use and install winPE that under certain circumstances.

  If I were you, I forge very definitely do a repair on the left side of the window Back Up DVD system & restore control panels. You will know you which must one day next.

  I would also like to use the same backup and restore to make an image file system windows partition you have now a remote drive or DVD 3 or more.

  I could then try to start the program OneKey and make me a OneKey Recovery DVD to repair... Start with it... see if he found by chance an image of the original installation. However, chances are his party...

  Or try to update next month for win8 at the start of the special $ 40... I think... But to reading posts here, it cancels your Lenovo warranty updated to what whether your version of windows.

• How do I find my Windows product key?

  I have a laptop HP with Windows 8 is installed.  It has a recovery partition, so he came with the OS discs.  I have recently upgraded to Windows 8. 1.

  Now I want to install Windows Media Player, but I understand that I need to enter my Windows product key.

  Where can I find this key?

  Hello
   
  The key is in the BIOS of your machine, please use the following tool to get:

  http://www.Belarc.com/free_download.html

  When running this tool, it produced a report, scroll to the section of software management. Product key Windows 8 or 8.1 is there.

  You can also use the following tool to discover:

  https://www.magicaljellybean.com/KeyFinder/

  Kind regards

• Pavilion p001TX: lost Windows license key

  I bought a pre-installed llicensed WIndows 8.1 compatible HP laptop. Recently I tried to dual-boot my laptop with Ubuntu 14.01 for educational purposes. By mistake I finished my whole hard drive, which meant that even the recovery folder wiped out formatting. I want to reinstall Windows 8.1 on my laptop, but I don't have my copy of original Windows license key. I bought the laptop to an authorized HP provider, but he says that the company does not provide a repair CD Windows. The license key is not located in the BIOS of the laptop, it is not yet available on any sticker on any external part of the laptop. What can I do to find the key licensing and re - activate my original Windows? Pease guide me.

  Hi @Rishi17 ,

  Thank you for visiting the Forums HP's Support and welcome. It's a great site for information and questions. I looked in your question about your HP Pavilion Notebook 15-p001tx and problems with product activation Windows 8.

  Here is a link to product activation Windows 8.

  Here is of little assistance from Microsoft as well.

  I hope this helps.

  Thank you.

• Pavilion 17-g121wm: laptop refurbished with no Windows license key

  Greetings,

  I just got a used Pavilion laptop. It came with 10 windows pre-loaded and is in perfect working condition, but they stripped all the stickers from him, including one with the Windows license key. If I buy the HP recovery media, it will have the license key, and it'll work on my laptop?

  I'm waiting for a reminder of the repairer's customer service to see if I can get a key from them (I just call a few minutes ago). For the price I paid, I'd take a few steps to take care of this (including buying a new copy of Windows, although I'd rather not if I can avoid it).

  I found it! I am so excited. I have installed and run Belarc Advisor, and he showed a ton of information, including my Windows license key. I stuck that in the right place in my settings and here! It showed that my copy of Windows has been activated before I did, but I didn't have the possibility to create recovery discs, that was my main problem. Windows has accepted the key, and now I have the ability to create a recovery disk. I get an error when I do, but I want to install an update, now that I think it will fix. If it isn't, I think it's fodder for another line of inquiry. @erico, thank you very much for all your time. I hope that this post will help someone else who may be faced with the same problem or something similar.

• Re-install Windows 7 using recovery media (DVD)

  Laptop: HP-430 Notebook

  OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)

  HARD DRIVE: THE 298 GB

  When I bought recently my laptop HP-430, I partitioned new HARD drive using some other third party software. I created an additional partition (M:\). Here's the info, how I've repartitioned...

  C:\ - 100 GB (changed from 284 GB to 100 GB).

  D:\ - have not made any changes.

  M:\ - 184 GB (created a drive by myself).

  Then after a few days of testing purpose I thought using the Recovery Manager. So I run the Setup and chose the first option (System Restore) who says he will only reformat the drive (C:\) system and will not issue any other HARD disk changes. But to my surprise it deleted/reformatted the HARD full disc, and I lost all my documents, music, photos and all my important files, I recorded/saved on M:\ (that I had created...)

  Can someone tell me why the hack happened...?

  So now, next point. After that the Recovery Manager has restored the operating system, I repartitioned again, but this time with the Windows disk management tool. But the Windows disk management does not shrink (resize) the C:\(Systemdrive) of less than 150 GB. So I resized C:\ to 150 GB of GB 284 and created a player more (M:\) 147 GB size. And I deleted the recovery disc (D:\), but I created the recovery DVD before you remove the Recoevery of my HARD disk drive.

  Now its time for me to reinstall Windows 7 using recovery media, I messed with some system files when installing a theme for Windows 7 and now my OS is completely unstable. So now I want to reinstall windows 7, but I do not understand what option selected in the Recovery Manager (when run from Recovery DVD)

  Options displayed in the Recovery Manager

  1 collect using Microsoft Recovery

  2 recovery system (the option that I had chosen for the first time and got all the stuff removed)... He said that he only reinstalls the OS and custom make any other change of HARD drive.

  3 minimized Image Recovery

  4. factory Reset.

  So now my question to you guys, it's what option do I have selected in the Recovery Manager so that all my saved content and my stuff on M:\ (I created) will not be removed... and the operating system is reinstalled.

  PLIZZZZZ HELPPPPPPPPPPPP...

  Hello

  I don't think that all the disk recovery options will keep your partition custom - as far as I know, the only time where you will receive a prompt to keep a custom partition when you use the option "Recovery of Image is reduced to a minimum" to the recovery Partition D that you deleted.

  You can try the following workaround.

  Download the good Image of disk Windows 7 from the link below: it must be exactly the same version your OEM Setup - that is to say if your laptop comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, it comes to the version, you must download.

  Windows 7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit

  Use an app like ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly on a blank DVD - a guide on the use of ImgBurn to write an ISO on a disc is here.

  Use the disk that you create to perform the installation - when you get to the option to choose the installation type, choose custom and select the C partition.

  When asked, enter the activation key Windows located on the underside of your laptop, then when the installation is complete use the 'method of phone", described in detail in the link below to activate the operating system - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who want to just that a new installation of Windows 7 without software load additional normally bundled with OEM installations.

  http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-Windows-7-by-phone.aspx

  Additional drivers, you may need to find from here.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Missing Windows Vista key

  Hello

  I recently visited Tiger Direct to remove a virus from my dv6000 (bought new at HP in 2008). They advised that it was better to wipe my system and reload everything, so I let that happen. Now I like my version of Windows is not genuine and to enter my product key, but my Windows the license sticker on the bottom of my laptop is unreadable. I went back to Tiger Direct and they said that HP would be able to give me a Vista key if I gave them the serial number on my laptop. Is this true? I would really like to have my fully operational windows in return and am not currently able to upgrade to another operating system.

  Hello:

  You have to get a set of recovery disks which normally do not need to enter a product key.

  Information on how to order recovery disks is on the link below.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07143

  HP, or Microsoft will give you a replacement windows product key.

  Paul

• Restore to factory settings option does not appear when the one key recovery button?

  When I press on my one key recovery button the window that apears only shows the backup of the option and the option to create recovery disk. Why? How can I restore my computer without factory? How can I restore to a previous state?

  What you are experiencing is the OneKey Recovery program in Windows. This allows you to create a new backup and burn recovery CD/DVDs. To run the OneKey Recovery and restore of factory default, you must shut down the computer, then press the OneKey. This recovery feature has recovery option.