I'm in a bit of a pickle and it's driving me crazy. Some background: I recently wanted to do a full recovery of my laptop because I was experiencing issues such as freezing and GPU driver issues that I couldn't seem to resolve. I had previously upgraded from W8.1 to W10. When I attempted recovery, I got a BSOD telling me that it had encountered problems with the installation of the OS. So I made a bootable usb-stick with W8.1 using Microsoft's recovery utility.
Now we're reaching the heart of the problem: my product key and activation. I did not have my product key at hand. I found out that the product key was encrypted in the BIOS and that it would apply itself automatically when prompted(?). It didn't, however, since this was W8.1 and not just W8 and for some reason that's different. After some googling I found this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx which helped me activate Windows, atleast temporarily. I managed to find the product key embedded in BIOS, but it tells me it doesn't work for this version of Windows. Any ideas as to what I should do now? Is there some way to install just W8 so I can see if my product key will work then?
Now we're reaching the heart of the problem: my product key and activation. I did not have my product key at hand. I found out that the product key was encrypted in the BIOS and that it would apply itself automatically when prompted(?). It didn't, however, since this was W8.1 and not just W8 and for some reason that's different. After some googling I found this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx which helped me activate Windows, atleast temporarily. I managed to find the product key embedded in BIOS, but it tells me it doesn't work for this version of Windows. Any ideas as to what I should do now? Is there some way to install just W8 so I can see if my product key will work then?
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