After a lot of troubleshooting I'm looking for another workaround but here's the deal:
I purchased a Dual-Boot PC with 2 seperate SSD's each one carrying and licensed with the SAME Win 8.1 OEM CD (which I still have physically).
Now using the same OEM license was the idea of the builder and he did mention it took him some effort to make the same 8.1 license work on both OS-es (which again are completely seperated through UEFI and run on 2 different SSD's.
In the last 1,5 years -up to today - both OS-es updated just fine, were recognized as legit (NO KMspice etc.) and by now I've upgraded 1 OS to Win 10 Home 64x.
Thing is the Win 10 Home has issues which I can't seem to resolve so I probably need to do a fresh install and have 2 questions about this:
1) As I understand now the retailer sort of 'tricked' me in the sense that 1 OEM license strictly speaking is not allowed on 2 "systems" -although we're still talking about 1 PC here (plus I was glad at that time with thim saving me a few bucks). Now I know Win 8.1 license is tied to the mobo -which ofcourse is the same for both OS-es- but since I upgraded one OS to Win10 I am honestly lost about the possible consequenses doing a fresh install on the OS would have.
Am I in danger the fresh installed or the other OS won't be recognized and licensed?
2) Second question is essentialy the same but involes the proces of reinstalling:
As mentioned I need to re-install the Win 10 Home OS. As I have no pshysical copy of that, would it mean I'd have to install Win 8.1. first using the original OEM disk or could I donwload a Win 10 ISO which would recognize the license from the mobo?
3) Actually a third overall question:
The builder of my PC did mention he had to jump through some hoops in order to get the same OEM license working on both OS-es. I don't know which (at that time I didn't even fully realize it was technically speaking a breach of the EULA) but in correlation/ or supplemental to the above questions would I have to watch out for some UEFI settings like FAST & SECURE BOOT?
I purchased a Dual-Boot PC with 2 seperate SSD's each one carrying and licensed with the SAME Win 8.1 OEM CD (which I still have physically).
Now using the same OEM license was the idea of the builder and he did mention it took him some effort to make the same 8.1 license work on both OS-es (which again are completely seperated through UEFI and run on 2 different SSD's.
In the last 1,5 years -up to today - both OS-es updated just fine, were recognized as legit (NO KMspice etc.) and by now I've upgraded 1 OS to Win 10 Home 64x.
Thing is the Win 10 Home has issues which I can't seem to resolve so I probably need to do a fresh install and have 2 questions about this:
1) As I understand now the retailer sort of 'tricked' me in the sense that 1 OEM license strictly speaking is not allowed on 2 "systems" -although we're still talking about 1 PC here (plus I was glad at that time with thim saving me a few bucks). Now I know Win 8.1 license is tied to the mobo -which ofcourse is the same for both OS-es- but since I upgraded one OS to Win10 I am honestly lost about the possible consequenses doing a fresh install on the OS would have.
Am I in danger the fresh installed or the other OS won't be recognized and licensed?
2) Second question is essentialy the same but involes the proces of reinstalling:
As mentioned I need to re-install the Win 10 Home OS. As I have no pshysical copy of that, would it mean I'd have to install Win 8.1. first using the original OEM disk or could I donwload a Win 10 ISO which would recognize the license from the mobo?
3) Actually a third overall question:
The builder of my PC did mention he had to jump through some hoops in order to get the same OEM license working on both OS-es. I don't know which (at that time I didn't even fully realize it was technically speaking a breach of the EULA) but in correlation/ or supplemental to the above questions would I have to watch out for some UEFI settings like FAST & SECURE BOOT?