Where find W8 Serial number ?

tomakas123
tomakas123 Member Posts: 1 New User

Bought Iconia W700 with Win8, reinstalled whem normaly, but where is the serial number of W8 ? How to extract it from System DVD ? Time is ticking, and where is no serial number writen on DVD or somewhere else.

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  • loadinglevelone
    loadinglevelone Member Posts: 20 New User

    I seem to remember that someone on this forum mentioned that the license key was hardcoded into the tablet. This would apparently only work with a win8 reinstall from the supplied restore DVD, and not from with any other clean win8 installs.

     

    Don't know if this is true or how that works, but that's what was said anyway.

     

    (Now, there are softwares out there that can extract the lince key from a windows installation, but that would imply that you did this before removing the preinstalled windows.)

  • dagrim1
    dagrim1 Member Posts: 5 New User

    Actually, both on the Asus X202e and Samsung XE700T1C I did a clean windows 8 install (using a downloaded iso and bootable usb) and it automatically used the 'hardcoded' cdkey. WIndows installed fine and is activated afterwards...

     

    No guarantees this will work all the time and/or with the AcerW700 but it seems it will just install the proper version (Pro/Normal, etc) based on the cdkey 'in' the tablet. Appearantly you can always change the cdkey afterwards to ' upgrade' or something.

  • mic
    mic Member Posts: 22 New User

     

    try belarc advisor.

     

     

     

     

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