Installing Windows 8 no serial

swain90 · 10 May 2014 at 18:17

Hi All,

I've been given a laptop to repair, and I can't find the Windows 8 key. It's a Windows 8 laptop (Sony SV15A1M2ES). There's no sticky residue on the laptop so looks like it never had one put on!? I've taken the bottom casing off the laptop and there's no sticker under there.

Am I being dumb or has something changed since Windows 8?

Cheers
Swain90

swain90 · 10 May 2014 at 18:24

Rroff said:
IIRC It'll be embedded in the BIOS and will automatically work with the correct version of the OS install?

I can remember reading something similar to this

swain90 · 10 May 2014 at 18:45

Ok Cheers guys.

Had to replace the hard drive so no recovery partition there I'm afraid

swain90 · 12 May 2014 at 09:35

Thanks Orcvader I shall check it out!

swain90 · 14 May 2014 at 09:48

FYI

Installed Windows 8 yesterday using this ISO en_windows_8_x64_dvd_915440.iso and everything seems to have gone through OK. It picked up the key just after booting from DVD. Just a matter of all the other apps/updates to install.

Thanks for your comments!