{"id":864,"date":"2014-05-13T00:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T08:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2014-05-13T00:39:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T08:39:52","slug":"windows-8-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2014\/05\/13\/windows-8-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 install"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a client with an Asus SonicMaster S200E laptop (really a largish netbook). The hard drive failed and he didn’t have an image or recovery disks. Asus was no help so I turned to the real supporter of Microsoft products — torrents.<\/p>\n

What a nightmare figuring out how to get Win8 to install on his computer.<\/p>\n

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  1. The install files have to be on a Fat32 formatted thumb drive. Of course, the SonicMaster wouldn’t accept a usb dvd player as a boot device.<\/li>\n
  2. After hours and hours of downloading and searching I found a friendly ISO torrent that worked for me. Go figure, it’s from Russia With Love.
    \nMagnet Link<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Then I used Yummi to make that iso file bootable on the Fat32 formatted 16GB flash drive (4GB wasn’t quite big enough, 8GB would have done but I didn’t have one).<\/li>\n
  4. I formatted the flash to Fat32 before running YUMI-2.0.0.4 from PenDriveLinux.com<\/a>. Here’s a screen shot of the Yummi ready to go:<\/li>\n
  5. The laptop booted and installed just fine. I choose to not input a license number at this time.<\/li>\n
  6. Now, I had to get the license number for Windows8. Of course, it’s in the bios. There’s a program to get it, so once I had installed Win8 I was able to run wpkey_v1.4.7d from softpedia<\/a> (which means you’ll probably get that damn search.conduit, so be careful). This youtube video on wpkey<\/a> will show you how to use it.<\/li>\n
  7. Once I had the product key it was a simple matter to search for “activate” and enter a new key. Worked great.<\/li>\n
  8. One more step for that particular iso setup, I had to change the computername\/workgroup.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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