My nephew has a laptop, that which has an OEM version of Windows 8. I was told that OEM versions are just system builder OS' and that it is bound to the cpu/mobo. So there is no possible way to obtain an ISO to re-install his OEM version if the Windows 8. I wanted to make sure that if the Windows 7 downgrade was not possible, we would be able to install Windows 8 back on the machine. We found that there was another laptop with Windows 7 on it, had Identical hardware to his Windows 8 laptop, so we downloaded all the drivers for the 7 machine and also the 8 drivers in case something went wrong..
I don't understand why his purchase in a store for an expensive piece of hardware screwed him out of a deal with the actual operating system.
I don't understand why his purchase in a store for an expensive piece of hardware screwed him out of a deal with the actual operating system.