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    No Windows 8 licence in the BIOS?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Dangerous_Dave, Feb 3, 2018.

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    Dangerous_Dave Notebook Guru

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    I have a Dell M4800 which has both a Windows 7 sticker on the palmrest and a Windows 8 Pro sticker underneath, so I had assumed it would have a Windows 8 Pro licence key in the BIOS. Having obliterated the previous partitions and installed Windows 8, the machine will not activate, and using rw everything, I see there is no MSDM tab under ACPI. Is there any way I can get licenced Windows onto this machine without going out and buying it again?
     
    Dangerous_Dave, Feb 3, 2018
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