The preinstalled Win 8 home edition build 9200 on my Lenovo Y580 laptop broke down.
I tried every kind of recovery/restoration and repair with install DVDs for other versions of Win 8 and the installed OS - no luck.
So I downloaded a developers version of WIn 8 enterprise from MS and installed that but it will run out after 90 days.
I have a license so I am entitled to a working version of the same OS but there isn't one to download.
How can I get a copy of the original OS so that it will activate using my license (they gave me no DVD when I bought the laptop) and there is no license key printed on the machine.
It definitely activated the first time.
I tried every kind of recovery/restoration and repair with install DVDs for other versions of Win 8 and the installed OS - no luck.
So I downloaded a developers version of WIn 8 enterprise from MS and installed that but it will run out after 90 days.
I have a license so I am entitled to a working version of the same OS but there isn't one to download.
How can I get a copy of the original OS so that it will activate using my license (they gave me no DVD when I bought the laptop) and there is no license key printed on the machine.
It definitely activated the first time.