can i make a iso off of one windows 8 machine and use it to recover another windows8 machine they both are 64 bit and have emb
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millwright
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Mostly no.
They would have to at least have the same chip set, not to mention all the other drivers that won't match up.
They would have to at least have the same chip set, not to mention all the other drivers that won't match up.
Hi
If you have a ISO of windows downloaded from a legitimate source you can make a windows DVD to repair a PC with similar windows version
Or do you mean build a system recovery cd or USB ?
. If you are planning a complete re install then you need the same motherboard from same PC supplier on both source & destination PC
Eg a system recovery CD from Dell will help repair a Toshiba or Acer etc
But the windows ISO from a Dell will not activate on a different brand
In some cases net books from same factory but different brands have different bios and windows disk is different , swapping bios de activates windows
Regards
Mike Barnes
If you have a ISO of windows downloaded from a legitimate source you can make a windows DVD to repair a PC with similar windows version
Or do you mean build a system recovery cd or USB ?
. If you are planning a complete re install then you need the same motherboard from same PC supplier on both source & destination PC
Eg a system recovery CD from Dell will help repair a Toshiba or Acer etc
But the windows ISO from a Dell will not activate on a different brand
In some cases net books from same factory but different brands have different bios and windows disk is different , swapping bios de activates windows
Regards
Mike Barnes
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Yes you can make an ISO off one machine and use it in another machine. But you run into a massive problem when you use the OS on the new machine.
Windows KMS "key management system" registers the original machine where windows was installed as the legitimate source.
if you use that OS on the new machine, windows automatically detects it as a different machine and will deactivate its license. So you will have to reactive either by the way of a crack and bypass KMS, or painfully call microsoft (which you will get a crappy answer from them as always from their customer service) to reactivate the OS.
So I would prefer googling for a KMS bypass software rather than call MS.
Windows KMS "key management system" registers the original machine where windows was installed as the legitimate source.
if you use that OS on the new machine, windows automatically detects it as a different machine and will deactivate its license. So you will have to reactive either by the way of a crack and bypass KMS, or painfully call microsoft (which you will get a crappy answer from them as always from their customer service) to reactivate the OS.
So I would prefer googling for a KMS bypass software rather than call MS.
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