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Hard drive failed and issues being able to install OEM Windows on new hard drive

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  • Windows 8
  • OEM
  • Hard Drives
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September 25, 2014 1:46:41 PM

Hi All,

I have a Lenovo with pre-installed OEM Windows 8 version.

My hard drive is failing and saying boot disk not found and eventually after 20 reboots I can go in which could be useful if I need to do something to be able to install Windows 8 on the new hard drive.

1st, I made a recovery USB and it's saying that it can't find the partition when I try to run the USB with the new drive.

I researched online and also tried getting the install file to my USB but it doesn't accept my license key saying I can't do that with a retail version.

I have getting confused and frustrated and refuse to buy a new CD version of Windows.

Can anyone help, kindly note I am French and not an advanced user so please try and vulgarize as most as possible when replying.

Thank you! :) 

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a c 491 * Windows 8
September 25, 2014 1:50:20 PM

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I researched online and also tried getting the install file to my USB but it doesn't accept my license key saying I can't do that with a retail version.


Correct. The retail d/l from Microsoft will not work with an OEM key.
Contact the manufacturer. They will likely give you or sell you the recovery media to put onto the new drive.
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September 25, 2014 9:46:14 PM

Thank you I will contact them tomorrow and I thought of installing a 90-day trial version of Windows 8.1 for enterprise (until I receive the replacement) but the download is a .part file. Seems I need to install a text editor to open that file but just don't know what to do after that. Why do they make this so difficult, don't they know hard drives can crash! Ugh Thank you for your help.
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a c 491 * Windows 8
September 26, 2014 3:09:59 AM

MimiGSXR600 said:
Thank you I will contact them tomorrow and I thought of installing a 90-day trial version of Windows 8.1 for enterprise (until I receive the replacement) but the download is a .part file. Seems I need to install a text editor to open that file but just don't know what to do after that. Why do they make this so difficult, don't they know hard drives can crash! Ugh Thank you for your help.


The 8.1 Enterprise from MS is a regular ISO file. If you're seeing blahblahblah.part, that just means it is not done downloading yet.
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