Sorry. Just realized my test was with P/N X18-24794. We have a campus agreement which gives us Work at Home licenses and this disc is for Faculty/Students to install Windows 8 Pro Full on their home computers.
If you have SA at work, you might have a similar program and therefore a similar disc. The really annoying thing is that the disc images aren't just widely available. They're relying on the product key to prevent anti-piracy, so why not make the images available? It's not like the pirates are the ones having trouble here. It's the legit users...as is always the case with copyright technology. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can any edition of Windows 8 be installed from any media, as Windows >> 7 often was able to do, or are there restrictions again? > > 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 didn't work. :-( Booted the laptop from generic volume license media, did the install, and at the end of it all, it's running Win 8 Pro. Trying to activate anyway yielded the DNS errors which generally indicate it's looking for a KMS (Key Management Services) server. I can't do a "Change product key" since Win 8 OEM doesn't come with a COA or PK for me to enter. I never saw an option to choose the edition of Windows. This was Win 8 Pro VLM, P/N X18-16134. Also tried Win 8.1 Pro VLM, P/N X18-96634, with the same result. Dear Microsoft, please drop dead, for making it increasingly difficult to use your products legally. Toshiba, you can also drop dead, for all the crap you preload. -- Ben
