{"id":169,"date":"2014-09-29T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2014-11-28T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:28:04","slug":"bypassing-an-imbedded-windows-8-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/bypassing-an-imbedded-windows-8-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Bypassing an Embedded Windows 8 Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n

NR tried installing a fresh version of Windows 8 but it, unfortunately, would pull up the old OEM key.<\/p>\n

Solution (Taken from here<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Set your machine to boot in legacy BIOS mode, configure boot order with USB first<\/li>\n
  2. Copy your install media to a USB thumbdrive (you’ll need at least 4GB)<\/li>\n
  3. On the thumbdrive go into \\sources<\/li>\n
  4. Create a file called PID.txt which contains the following (substitute the X’s with your product key):\n
      \n
    1. [PID]<\/li>\n
    2. Value=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Create a file called EI.cfg (that’s ei not e1 or el). It contains the following:\n
        \n
      1. [EditionID]<\/li>\n
      2. [Channel]<\/li>\n
      3. Retail<\/li>\n
      4. [VL]<\/li>\n
      5. 0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      6. You’re good to go, install from the USB thumbdrive and you *should* be OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Problem: NR tried installing a fresh version of Windows 8 but it, unfortunately, would pull up the old OEM key. Solution (Taken from here): Set your machine to boot in legacy BIOS mode, configure boot order with USB first Copy Continue reading Bypassing an Embedded Windows 8 Key<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[58,59,60,97],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-8","tag-license-key","tag-oem","tag-oem-key","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torontohelpdesk.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}