Recovering win8 after Asus crash. No one wants to give out the license?

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arvis

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#154171 20-Oct-2014 12:32

I was told, the only way to recover windows 8 laptop is to send it to Asus. There is no recovery media.

Also, I am not allowed to transfer the license to another computer (it would be my preference, as I could not wait and installed ubuntu on asus).

Do you have any experience or expertise with these issues?

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Kraven

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#1158427 20-Oct-2014 12:52

No, you cannot transfer an OEM license to another machine.

arvis

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Master Geek
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#1158469 20-Oct-2014 13:49

Thanks guys for pointing to the right direction. After 5 minutes research, it took me a few seconds to extract the key from bios in Ubuntu.

$ ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables
$ sudo hd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

Next step find the installation media...

1101

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#1159159 21-Oct-2014 12:07

arvis:

Where do you get the media to restore to windows 8?

Good luck finding that. I gave up & borrowed an install USB from the PC supplier we use
I think you can buy install media , or sometimes you can buy recovery CD's from the manufacturer(not cheap).

Try this, may or might not work
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

I dont know why MS make this so hard.
Install CD should be supplied with PC & Laptops . Not much chance of piracy as it wont work without valid install keys & MS know how many times a key has been used when its activated .