Not sure what to do to get win 8 installed. To upgrade to win 10 when available from Microsoft. I want win 7 pro ( which is the current OS )and now win 8 again to make up dual OS,( it's the win 8 that I want I've been wanting to have a dual boot system now ( software reasons, and I don't want to run a vitual machine etc ).

Sadly, I am one of those that deleted my recovery partition ( or rather, forgot to back it up when I made the win 8īackup of my C drive) when downgrading from win 8 to win 7 pro. That I had retrieved, windows/Microsoft wouldn't allow install.stating not valid key. I actually used several programs, and they all came back with the same serial #.īut, when I used the win 8 ISO ( the proper core win 8, with proper hash etc), and when I entered the serial key

I figured it out, see my post here to get links to the Retail Win 8 ISOs and a rundown of the Windows 8 OEM activation scheme. I don't know if ASUS stores that information but it may be worth the time to send an e-Mail what have you got to lose they can only say one of three things, we dont have that information, we wont give it to you or yes here you go.

I don't know what your model is but do you have a set of rescue and recovery disks if so you could restore from those or depending on how they are built the serial number for windows is included in a file on one of the cd's and can be extracted with windows deployment tools.įailing that the only thing I can think of is that you photograph the bottom of the laptop where the serial number and model number are and send an e-Mail to ASUS asking them in the nicest kiss up tone you can manage if they will give you the serial number associated with your Laptop if it is at all possible. Anyone have any answers as how to handle this? I got m hands on a windows 8 AIO iso but it is asking for me to manually input the serial. I accidentally botched my Win 8 install before i could run magic jellybean keyfinder. As the title says, How do i get my windows 8 OEM serial for a reinstall.

Windows 8 serial number