My old hardrive and disc drive was on a different computer with windows 8. I built a all new pc and used that old hdd, ram, and disc drive. I cut it on and it all appears to work and i downloaded a cpu driver and then realized I need to clear my hdd and do a clean install.
Problem is that it won't let me format my hdd beacuse the OS isn't activated i am guessing. So do I just buy windows 8 from store and insert that disc and it will walk me through it?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($71.99 @ Mwave)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Case: Sentey CS1-1398 PLUS ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.44 @ Amazon)
Total: $284.39
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-10 11:31 EDT-0400)
Problem is that it won't let me format my hdd beacuse the OS isn't activated i am guessing. So do I just buy windows 8 from store and insert that disc and it will walk me through it?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($71.99 @ Mwave)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Case: Sentey CS1-1398 PLUS ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.44 @ Amazon)
Total: $284.39
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-10 11:31 EDT-0400)