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[joeha110]

I have an Acer Aspire V3-731-4477 with a bad hard drive.  I have a new HD and ordered the recovery disks from Acer. The problem is when I run the recovery disks they install windows 7 home premium without a key.  Originaly I had Win 8.  I went back to the Acer order page and it shows (Windows 7 & 8) without giving a chance to choose.  Do I have the wrong disks?  How do I install Win 8 with the disks Acer sent?  Do I need order diffrent disks?

I went into BIOS and set the boot to legacy and enabeled D2D recovery.

Please help 

Thanks

[BearPaw]

Consider yourself lucky if you got the Windows 7 recovery disks as Windows 8 is tricky for some.

As long as the key shows Windows is Activated in the computer info screen (click start, right click computer and select properties) you should be set to go unless you really wanted Windows 8 then you would have to contact Acer Support and tell them you got the wrong set.

I don't know what the process going forth from there would be.