Windows 8 ISO?

Glaucus, saying that it has nothing to do with Microsoft is absurd, they are the ones who have sanctioned the whole thing by creating the OEM licence concept, they are the worst offenders in the chain, in their position of power they can refuse the whole operation and say "if you want to install windows on your products you need a standard retail licence", rather than allowing users to be subjected to this half-licence bs.

In any case I have solved the problem myself by obtaining a windows 8 oem ISO from a grey source.

For future reference guys, the laptop recovery partitions contain the bloat I am trying to avoid and are as such useless. As is using the reinstall option because as well as bloat, one cannot even format the disk properly.

The most hassle free way is an ISO from USB. However even then Windows is a pain in the arse because it offers no partition type options and will format the boot partition using the horrid GPT mode (which a lot of software does not support) instead of the industry standard MBR mode unless you specifically boot the installation media in legacy (BIOS) mode.
 
You can install windows, you have the media to do exactly that. How on earth is it a half license?

And no ms is not the worse offender, they've done nothing except give the option of a license at about 1/10th the cost of retail, but with that they don't offer any support for it, support is down to the manufacturer.
 
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KIA said:
You should share the MD5 and file name.
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File name: HRM_CCSA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.iso

MD5: 7a4db5576f7f77a3cbd3b76570467245

mrbell1984 said:
There is you have to make it. I already posted the answer.
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No you did not, you posted a link to a ms iso download program that only accepts retail cd keys...

Glaucus said:
You can install windows, you have the media to do exactly that. How on earth is it a half license?
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Aside from stating the obvious fact that it is non-transferable, (which is unique amongst all software packages in the world) it comes bundled with bloat/spyware, thus can only be considered a half version of Windows.

And no ms is not the worse offender, they've done nothing except give the option of a license at about 1/10th the cost of retail, but with that they don't offer any support for it, support is down to the manufacturer.
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They have given the false impression of giving customers a true copy of windows that they know will be used for ad ware purposes and drive the customers insane to no end. That alone merits pirating the full retail version as far as morality is concerned.
 
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How is it not a true copy of windows, you started this thread in the wrong and once pointed you started out making wrong assumptions in this thread and when pointed out wont change your position.

So you have full windows, yes
Can you reinstall it, yes

False impression,how have they given a false impression. They do nothing of the sort. You could bother to read the info which comes with the laptop which explains it all.

It is a full version of windows, no half about it.
And plenty of software license are non transferable. All though EU has ruled against such policies depending on how its worded. If its for an unlimited time, then it is transferable under eu.
 
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Glaucus said:
How is it not a true copy of windows, you started this thread in the wrong and once pointed you started out making wrong assumptions in this thread and when pointed out wont change your position.
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Not really, the crux of what I've said has been affirmed by the responses in this thread, you seem intent on ignoring the key issues and focusing on semantics as you always do Mr Gates.
 
There isn't a crux to the issue, other than you seem to think you paid £60+ when you didn't.
And you also had no idea ms had nothing to do with preinstalled windows, which is all down to the OEM, and what they do with it is down to them not MS.
 
It seems that what ever I say I am not going to be able to the facts through to you, I am sure many others reading the thread are equally astonished as to the fact that you think a software licence issued by Microsoft has nothing to do with Microsoft.
 
Ms produce it, they however have nothing to do with what you blame them for.
You started of making assumptions that were wrong and continued making even more outlandish assumptions.

And no you wont get your "facts" across as they aren't facts.

The license you purchased with the laptop is down to the oem(it is down to oem to provide support, replacement media etc, so no after sales support has zero to do with ms, your purchase and contract is with the oem), its explained in all the stuff you got with it, which goes against what you said, you did not pay anywhere near full price etc. you can reinstall it unlike what you said etc etc. and ms is not the only company with non transferable licenses.
 
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mark2410 said:
or you can just download an iso from a well known sailing ship site and use your perfectly legit key.
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That's what I've resorted to, that's what this whole thread is about really. Microsoft denying their customers access to their legitimately licensed software by creating an arbitrary oem/retail key divide for no valid reason, I'm not asking for MS to provide technical support, just allow me to download the same ISO that they offer anyway.
 
i had the same issue just last week, but was for a vista iso though.

its ridiculous and the amount of bother trying to find one that isnt a dodgy hacked copy. its sad that the legal option is still the more painful option.
 
Energize said:
That's what I've resorted to, that's what this whole thread is about really. Microsoft denying their customers access to their legitimately licensed software by creating an arbitrary oem/retail key divide for no valid reason, I'm not asking for MS to provide technical support, just allow me to download the same ISO that they offer anyway.
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MS isn't denying you anything. Support is down to the oem, not ms.
So you agreeing you don't want ms support, but on the other hand you want ms support.
The support is with the OEM, end of. Support has nothing to do with ms. You should be going to acer, dell, asus or who ever you purchased it through for support.

I can only assume when you buy a top set box like sky or Virgin, rather than going to them for help and support, you'll run of throwing a strop at TiVo etc, who supply the software, even though you have no contract with TiVo and all support is through virgin.
 
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