Hello,
now, my windows 8 is gone, and i forgot to create a recovery disk, and
all the hartdisk have been formatted. how to get back the product key
for my windows 8 that is buried inside this laptop? it is not written on
the machine. it is at the mother board. how can i restore my windows 8?
is it possible?
thanks and sorry.
On 6/2/2015 9:07 AM, Loy via Talk wrote:
You could make a system image if you have an external drive and then
if you have a crash just reinstall this system image. I recently got a
ransom virus which corrupted all my data and music files and I use
this method to restore, I only lost a few days of data file. I had mad
an image backup just a few days before.
F2 gets my computer into the BIOS, different Brands may use a
different one.
---- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 8:10 PM
Subject: Boy? did I? pull a major stupid!
I'm such a neurotic idiot! I can't freaking believe I did this! As
you all know by now, I have a laptop which is running Windows 8.1.
The problem is, back when I initially bought this machine, I went
through the control panel and made a set of recovery discs. Once
they were burned, I electic, and here is my r'really! stupid move!
To erase the recovery partition off my drive, to reclame a few gigs
of space. I figured, what the heck. I have the DVD's now that I
burned, so big freaking deal. If the system ever crashes, I simply
just need to boot to the first DVD, and go.
Well, this would be great, except for one problem. During my last
move, I've seemed to have misplaced those DVD's. I've turned the
house totally upside down, and rightside up! They're gone! I dono
what happened, but they have totally vannished, and believe you me, I
looked. The issue is, with Windows 7 and 8/8.1, once you make these
discs, that's it. It only gives you that one chance apparently.
After that, the option is no longer available. So, now, I have two
issues. Firstly, I've wiped the recovery partition, so that's not an
option anymore, plus I've lost my DVD's.
Secondly, I've put the make and model of the laptop, which I don't
recall off the top of my head into Google, it's an Asus, but don't
recall the model. I went to see if there was an updated bios as
apparently, I need to update it to get access to the option needed to
be able to get the thing to boot to the DVD optycal or the USB
ports. So, it's not like I now can boot to either. I looked and it
doesn't appear that there is a key to get to the boot menu. F12
isn't doing anything, and neither is F8. Apparently, a friend of mine
told me it has to do with in Windows 8, they no longer have a bios,
but now, most systems have what's called a UEFI which you have to go
into and disable things like secure boot, and a few other settings
which off hand I'm failing to recall, before you can even think of
selecting to boot to DVD. So, the thing is, right now, my system is
working perfectly, but, if God forbid, it ever crashes, I don't have
a way of installing an OS back on to it. I
spoke to Geeksquad, and even they! won't help me. Not even for
pay. The lady who was the magnolia specialist was like, Sir, it's
honestly not my problem that you pulled a stupid is, as stupid duzz.
So, does this mean, if the system ever crashes, I'm just S O L until
I can get a new laptop? You'd think as incredibly advanced of a
techy I am, I'd know not to a done this, and you know, in retrospect,
looking back on it, I gotta say, this was one a the stupidest! moves
I've ever made! I literally just wanna crawl in a hole and freaking
die! I'm usually darn good at this type thing, but in this case, I'm
really frightened to use the system, honestly. I don't wanna do
anything that could risk it later crashing down the line from wear
and tear/use.
I can't pay right this second, and when I can, it couldn't be
probably more than $50 max at most, but if someone could help with
this or could at least on or off list offer me some suggestions, I'd
be willing come this Wednesday on the 3rd to PayPal you $50 for your
time in researching things, and for your effort to help me. If we
could get the unit booting to DVD, I'd be 100% satisfied.
Also as for recoverring, I do have a copy of Terrabyte Unlimited's
Image for Windows, but it doesn't seem to be working with Win 8.1.
The story of my life! Apparently the version is way too old, seeing
I bought it back in 2004, I think, and haven't updated it since. I
just haven't really been able to afford it, with other bills, and such.
Anyway, this mail has gotten way longer than I intended, and to save
you all's sanity therefore, I'm gonna close. Please help, though, if
you can.
Chris.
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