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Stevers108
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Today after I had some errors occur, I decided to refresh my PC (after 4 years of having it, I've never refreshed it). It reverted back to Windows 8 (I upgraded legally through the app store to 8.1) and now it says my Windows 8 key is invalid... It came pre-installed on my system... I'm so mad right now.. Is there anything I can do?

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2 minutes ago, Stevers108 said:

Today after I had some errors occur, I decided to refresh my PC (after 4 years of having it, I've never refreshed it). It reverted back to Windows 8 (I upgraded legally through the app store to 8.1) and now it says my Windows 8 key is invalid... It came pre-installed on my system... I'm so mad right now.. Is there anything I can do?

Contact MS support. 

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Contact MS support. 

Microsoft should have no issue restoring the license to your PC. Looks like the refresh was using a key that was now tied to Windows 8.1 instead of 8.

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1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Microsoft should have no issue restoring the license to your PC. Looks like the refresh was using a key that was now tied to Windows 8.1 instead of 8.

 

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Contact MS support. 

I contacted HP (I bought a basic PC and tore it down 2 years ago to re-build it) but nonetheless, I will definitely contact them tomorrow. Thanks guys, I needed to rant to somebody :(

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2 minutes ago, Stevers108 said:

 

I contacted HP (I bought a basic PC and tore it down 2 years ago to re-build it) but nonetheless, I will definitely contact them tomorrow. Thanks guys, I needed to rant to somebody :(

 

Microsoft has been pretty good at activating keys that stopped working for me so do that text chat thing with them and they should be able to fix it

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Thanks guys :) This gives me a lot of options to work with. I never ran into this issue before...

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Just now, stationvsbox said:

fuck hp contact/chat with micosoft directly 

they replaced my wn8 key with a 8.1

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