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hi,
As you surely know, modern computers/laptop are embedded with Windows 8. In case of failure, you have to Reset/Refresh your system from the recovery partition, but you have various reasons this recovery features won't be used:
- you refuse to reinstall all the vendor crap utilities but rather a clean Win8.
- you deleted the recovery partitions...
- the Reset/Refresh just don't works or is broken/corrupted.
- you can't boot into Windows and need to reinstall it from a CD
so your only way is to install windows 8.xx from a CD/DVD
but "voila" you need your license key hardcoded into the UEFI... and of course the computer's vendor didn't gave it to you.
so there the trick to get it back:
1- Download and create a Linux Live CD, Linux Mint or Ubuntu for example
2 - launch it
3- open the console called Terminal
4- type: ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables , it will shows you if you have a MSDM table
5- then type: sudo hd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
the license will shows up on the right of the output.
Then now you can use it to install Win8.xx
"Linux? Because i worth it"
As you surely know, modern computers/laptop are embedded with Windows 8. In case of failure, you have to Reset/Refresh your system from the recovery partition, but you have various reasons this recovery features won't be used:
- you refuse to reinstall all the vendor crap utilities but rather a clean Win8.
- you deleted the recovery partitions...
- the Reset/Refresh just don't works or is broken/corrupted.
- you can't boot into Windows and need to reinstall it from a CD
so your only way is to install windows 8.xx from a CD/DVD
but "voila" you need your license key hardcoded into the UEFI... and of course the computer's vendor didn't gave it to you.
so there the trick to get it back:
1- Download and create a Linux Live CD, Linux Mint or Ubuntu for example
2 - launch it
3- open the console called Terminal
4- type: ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables , it will shows you if you have a MSDM table
5- then type: sudo hd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
the license will shows up on the right of the output.
Then now you can use it to install Win8.xx
"Linux? Because i worth it"
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