My laptop came with windows 8 but i have had to replace the hard drive

My laptop came with windows 8 but i have had to replace the hard drive. How do i install windows again onto it and how do i activate it.

 

Hi
If you have Windows 8 on this machine it should still be under warranty - is it ?

Did you make any recovery disks or image the drive or do you have a full installation disk ?

Why was it necessary to replace the hard drive and who has done this ?

 

Yeah its still under warranty but i dropped it and i can not wait around for asus to fix it thats if they wukk . i have backed most of my files online, There was recovery on the old hard drive but the hard drive is knackered so i have had too replace it. i have downloaded windows 8 and put it onto a disk i just do know i will have to activate it.

 

If you downloaded a legit copy of Win 8 from Microsoft there should be no issues with activation, just install and let it activate. When you paid for the download you would have recieved a key code.

The isue would not be activating Windows. You will need to be sure to have all the system drivers from the Asus site.

 

How do you know ? Have you tested it ?
Dropping it may just have dislodged it on the connection - or may have dislodged the RAM Modules.

 

iv download my version of windows 8 from pirate bay, on the bottle there's a windows 8 sticker but there is no product key ( the sticker has like a chip or something behind it). And when i had the old hard drive in it would not come up in the bios iv checked the connections a number of times and there all fine, As soon as i put the new hard drive in it registered it in the bios straight away.

 

i have read on the internet that the product key is registered on the bios?

 

I have just tried to access TPB - my ISP has blocked it

Read this:
In 2009, the website’s founders were put on trial in Sweden, charged with facilitating illegal downloading of copyrighted material. They were found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison with a fine of 30 million SEK (€2.7M or US$3.5M as of 2009). In fourteen countries, ISPs have been ordered to block access to the website.

Looks like an illegal download to me.

 

i needed to download a windows 8 back up seeming Microsoft dont allow this, i do own a product key you can acsess piratebay by going to

Link Removed BCB

 

We are not going to help you with pirated software. If you had a legitimate key you could have downloaded the software legally. This thread is closed according to our rules,

 

Hi BeeCeeBee - you may want to delete the illegal URL from the posters last post.

 

The laptop can with windows 8 the recover was on the hard drive and I went on microsofts website and could not find anything that why I download it of there,

 

Because M$ don't provide a download for legitimate users it doesn't mean that you can download an illegal version via a Torrent.

 

Its only illegal when you do not own a proper serial key, how else was i going to get a copy of it ? Im sorry for posting a link that can have counter-fit software on it, I'm just trying to get my laptop fixed i ant even had it a month.

 

You are wrong or being misguided. Get in touch with the manufacturer and they will get you a disk. They may charge you.

I actually thought I had locked this thread after post 10 but I guess I skipped over that step. I locked later it a bit later tand that is why there are more posts