Reinstall Windows 8 on workstation with no recovery media and new hard drive.
Hello. I am needing help with a specific request.
We have a workstation what is running Windows 8. The hard drive failed. The machine has no recovery media that was created, however it is orderable through HP.
With that in mind, where are the tools for IT Pros to reinstall Windows 8 from .ISO or USB media, as we could do in Windows 7 and previous versions?
Windows 8 keeps the license key stored in the BIOS from what I read, and one option is using an .ISO for Windows 8 from an MSDN account. The install will scan the BIOS for the key, find it, and will activate Windows 8.
We are Silver Partner. currently we are turning people away or telling them they must have their Factory Recovery Media for us to reinstall Windows 8 after hard drive failures, since we cannot find any .ISO available, and there is no plain Product Key on
the machine.
Hi ,
"one option is using an .ISO for Windows 8 from an MSDN account."I am afraid it will not work.
The copy of Windows that the OEM installs on a computer is valid only on that unique computer, so it can only be reinstalled and reactivated from the OEM-provided recovery media on that computer. So
I am afraid an .ISO for Windows 8 from an MSDN account won`t be activated automatically.
Here is link for reference:
Windows Activation in Development and Test Environments
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd981009.aspx
1.I agree with britishdhez, the best way to solved this issue is contactting the manufacture for a recovery media.
2.As an alternative choice, there is a similar situation and Justin offers several other solutions. Here is the link for reference:
How to install and active a windows 8 after change a hard drive?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/3591-73-install-active-windows-change-hard-drive
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Please help!A new hard drive doesn't have a recovery partition. It's totally blank.You're going to need either your original install discs or a Snow Leopard retail disc from which partition, format and install OS X.
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Acer recovery disk on new hard drive do not start.
Hi, my hard drive from my Acer Aspire M7721 , Winsdows 7 home prem OA crashed.I do have the recovery DVD made when i bought the pc.I have bought a same size hard drive and tried to use the recovery dvd's, but they do not start.On a forum it was written that these dvd's need to use a partition on the old (dead) drive and that the only solution was to download a iso copy from digital river software. The installation went all right and key was accepted, but after 2 days this MS warning came that the key was not accepted for activation. I went to the register process and had a talk with a operator who said it was not possible to use this key and the only solution was to buy a new product. Is there ANY way i will be able to use my recovery disks to get my 'own' windows 7 back, and use they key which came with the PC?I have as well a Ghost image which i made after all the updates were installed. (Hiren Boot 9.8). I tried to recover from the ghost image which just gave a error. Thanks,Pia
This thread is almost a year old. So at the risk of poor forum etiquette, I'll give a few things to try if anyone else is experiencing this problem. From what I've read, this is not an Acer specific issue. It can happen on any computer brand or with any HDD or SSD. It's not necessarily a BIOS specific issue either as I believe it can happen with all the major BIOS providers. Here's a short list of things to try that not only have worked for me, but others have also reported as fixes. To get things working it's usually some combination of the following. In all cases, you'll want to make sure that you only have the problem HDD/SSD connected to the computer. All other drives should be disconnected. 1. Using "diskpart clean" (which will wipe the drive and should put it in uninitialized state and in the same condition as it was when it came from the SSD/HDD factory.) This may have to be done more than once. 2. Shutdown the computer (this may have to be done more than once). Shutting down the computer doesn't mean pulling the power cord. It means gracefully/properly shutting down the computer using USB tools on a recovery drive. 3. Unplug the computer from the electrical outlet after its been gracefully shutdown. And wait anywhere from 2 minutes to 30 minutes. 4. Unplug the SATA power cable. 5. Unplug the SATA data cable. 6. Turn on the computer with only the SATA power cable connected, but not the SATA data cable. 7. Shutting down the computer and then unplugging it from electrical outlet. 8. Turning on the computer with both SATA power cable and SATA data cable connected. There's various reports across the internet in different forums about using some combination of the steps above. You may not need to use all of the steps or you may need to use a certain step more than once. Since most of the threads that describe the fixes are from average users, in most cases they aren't going back to try and reproduce the issue to narrow down which step(s) actually fixed the problem.
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My Macbook Pro was recently stolen, and I have replaced it with a Macbook Air. I attempted to simply do a restore from the Macbook Pro's Time Machine backup, but since the new Macbook Air's hard drive is significantly smaller, a Time Machine restore was not possible. I even tried to choose only settings or only my User Profile (option) when restoring, but the backup was still too large to do a restore onto the new machine. How do I restore my more-expensive apps (ie iWorks) onto my new Macbook without repurchasing them? Also, I reaad somewhere that if you went to the Mac App Store and attempted to repurchase the app and clicked BUY, it would simply alert you that you have already purchased the app (and trigger a re-download)... NOT THE CASE... So I just dropped another $19.99 for a second copy of Pages... Not my intention....
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
LMyou should get a usb backup drive as well. time machine has limited use in my eyes. it saves things. but older things can be errased ad space drops without telling you
nothing beats data redundancy. 2 saves is. 1. and 1 is none
im personally not fond of time machne though i use it only for a recovery parameter for a mac
id never ever myself consider time machine a genuine data backup tool. though most do consider it as such
drive clones such as superduper and carbon copy cloner can clone your entire drive for emergency recovery. and you can boot from them as well o. another mac -
As the title says. I have a 256GB SSD and a 2TB HD, so my desire is to put applications on the SSD and my user files on the HD. How do I do this? Can it be done at all in Migration Assistant?
Whitewings1 wrote:
As the title says. I have a 256GB SSD and a 2TB HD, so my desire is to put applications on the SSD and my user files on the HD. How do I do this? Can it be done at all in Migration Assistant?
No you cannot, it doesn't allow that level of customization. -
Problems with external/usb after installing new hard drive
After having a new hard drive installed (from Mac 10.5.2 to 10.6.8) I have experienced 2 problems so far:
1. I am getting no response (from anything connected from my usb port) ie. mouse. But plugging in the mouse directly into the mac works fine.
2. After a few minutes, the sound from my production speakers (connected: macbook->usb cord->sound card-> production speakers) starts to skip and then no sound at all, however my soundcard is still working as I see the light is on.
Can anyone let me know how this can be fixed? I never had these problems before getting the new hard drive.try doing a PRAM/NVRAM reset.......
that might sort out your issues.......
good luck.....hope it works for you...
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