Is it possible to do a clean install of 8.1?

Numerous times over the past few months i have set off on a google hunt to figure out how to get an ISO of 8 or 8.1 so i can do a clean install on my PC... but i can never find anything that works for my situation.
Often i find people discussing the method in this link, where you start the installation and then pause it at 1% and restart. However, i can't get that far because when i enter my Win8 product key (which i got from my bios) it says 'this key can not be used to activate a retail version of win8'.
http://www.winbeta.org/news/how-download-windows-81-iso-using-your-windows-8-retail-key
Any ideas?

Hi K_450,
Creating a Backup disc of Windows 8 is not an default option provided with the OS (Operating System) feature, but it can be backed up in a USB flash drive. Below is the link for the steps to create the Recovery Media:
Create a USB recovery drive
Do post us back for further queries.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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Whew... never buy an iMac or Laptop from Apple without the 3 year extended AppleCare... well 2 years extended... & I think they should be called on this, they should come with a 5 year Warranty, with more available if you want.
I think, "hmm... should it take this long?"
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/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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