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Hello, me again, (you guys have been great thank you very much) let me see if I understand this correctly (been reading Google) Lenovo does not put a COA sticker on the x230 for windows 8 pro? It is all automated?
I just loaded up windows 7, looked around the laptop, took the battery off and could not find a product key. Great...Probably should have looked this up beforehand. On top of that I cannot get the phone activation option to even come up on this thing.
Any suggestions at all for this situation: x230 had a defective hard drive, lenovo sent a new hard drive, and 4 recovery cds FOR A LAPTOP WITH NO CD DRIVE. I cannot stand windows 8 so I loaded windows 7 using a usb stick. The very last thing I need to do is activate windows, I apparently do not have a key for windows 8 to call microsoft with, and even if I did, I cannot find the microsoft activation number on this computer.
Thanks again people, would not have gotten this far without you...
Moderator note; comment removed Forum Rules

You are supposed to have downgrade rights if your machine was sold with win8 PRO. If you install from Lenovo disks, it will not ask for a key. Unfortunately, you are probably going to need to get access to a USB DVD drive. They can be gotten for under $20 on eBay, or you can try to borrow one.

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