DoggyDaddi
Gawd
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- Sep 10, 2002
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Ok, just bought a laptop for cheap, brand new unopened HP Dv7-7230us.. also bought a nice little 120gb SSD to use as the new primary, and relegate the original 1tb to the secondary.
Anyways, I installed a blu-burner too, got it all slapped together.. and damn if my image I made when I bought and downloaded Windows 8 Pro fro Microsoft wont boot. Fine.. I was prepped for that.. I made a USB stick efi too. It DOES recognise, but the laptop has a BIOS windows key for basic WIndows 8, and won't let me enter in a new key for the software I'm trying to install. It just tells me it's the wrong key and stops.
So fine.. I REINSTALL the original drive, go thru ALL the bullshit of burning all 6 recovery disks... but can't do anything until my SSD is properly set up using the included software, which I can't use until my 2nd hd kit arrives from HP with the damn 2nd hd cable that's missing from inside my laptop.
Anyways, it would save me time and trouble if someone could tell me how I can manually enter a key on a newer HP laptop while installing windows?
THANKS!
Anyways, I installed a blu-burner too, got it all slapped together.. and damn if my image I made when I bought and downloaded Windows 8 Pro fro Microsoft wont boot. Fine.. I was prepped for that.. I made a USB stick efi too. It DOES recognise, but the laptop has a BIOS windows key for basic WIndows 8, and won't let me enter in a new key for the software I'm trying to install. It just tells me it's the wrong key and stops.
So fine.. I REINSTALL the original drive, go thru ALL the bullshit of burning all 6 recovery disks... but can't do anything until my SSD is properly set up using the included software, which I can't use until my 2nd hd kit arrives from HP with the damn 2nd hd cable that's missing from inside my laptop.
Anyways, it would save me time and trouble if someone could tell me how I can manually enter a key on a newer HP laptop while installing windows?
THANKS!