I have a new Asus laptop - 4th gen i7, 8Gb RAM, 1TB HDD, 2GB NVidia card, and pre-installed Windows 8.1. It came with no installation media or Win 8.1 Product Key sticker underneath, although I now have the Product Key using Belarc Advisor.
I want to swap the HDD for a SSD. I don't want to put a cloned Win 8.1 image on the SSD, I want to do a clean install and do a set of optimisations to get the best from the SSD.
I have requested install media from Asus but they just refer me to the recovery partition and creating my own recovery onto USB stick. I know this, but obviously I cannot do a clean install with this and Asus will not supply installation media.
So to my question. If I bought an OEM Win 8.1 licence would I be within my right to install this on my SSD? In this case I would not intend to use the Product Key that came with the laptop, nor would I attempt to sell that Product Key. I don't see how this contravene the OEM T&Cs, thoughts?
Or is there a cheaper, legitimate way to get the Windows 8.1 install media for whichI could use my existing Product Key that I found via Belarc? Would that cause install issues?
Finally I have heard that the current OEM Product Key might be embedded in the BIOS, is this true and would it impact installing a different Product Key on the SSD? Would flashing the BIOS eradicate the embedded information about the OS's Product Key?
Any thoughts on this matter would be much appreciated.
I want to swap the HDD for a SSD. I don't want to put a cloned Win 8.1 image on the SSD, I want to do a clean install and do a set of optimisations to get the best from the SSD.
I have requested install media from Asus but they just refer me to the recovery partition and creating my own recovery onto USB stick. I know this, but obviously I cannot do a clean install with this and Asus will not supply installation media.
So to my question. If I bought an OEM Win 8.1 licence would I be within my right to install this on my SSD? In this case I would not intend to use the Product Key that came with the laptop, nor would I attempt to sell that Product Key. I don't see how this contravene the OEM T&Cs, thoughts?
Or is there a cheaper, legitimate way to get the Windows 8.1 install media for whichI could use my existing Product Key that I found via Belarc? Would that cause install issues?
Finally I have heard that the current OEM Product Key might be embedded in the BIOS, is this true and would it impact installing a different Product Key on the SSD? Would flashing the BIOS eradicate the embedded information about the OS's Product Key?
Any thoughts on this matter would be much appreciated.
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