I recently had a HP Elitebook 850 G1 with w8 pro licence, but with win7 pro installed on it. I booted off the supplied DVD and it built fine (no product key required) A colleague tried to build from a standard MS Win8 Pro image and it asked for a product key (which does not exist on the laptop) I would suggest you would need a Toshiba OEM DVD.
I see no reason why , on rebuild (from DVD) , you could not go into audit mode, uninstall all the bloatware and trials, sysprep it , and take a copy of the disk to use as master image The upgrade to 8.1, unfortunately was via the windows store, but upgraded fine, ran a disk cleanup to clear out the old 8.0 install , then installed other apps from there. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Same situation, but Dell. I was able to boot/install from the volume > license media, and it used the built-in product key to activate the > appropriate license. > > Well, that's promising. Thanks for the info! > > -- Ben > > >
