Hi.
I have an Elite 8300 (A2K87ET) which comes with a Win8 sticker on it. Already downgraded to Windows 7 from HP. I have both the Win7 and Win8 recovery disks.
We want to install a SSD-drive in the computer, and the recovery DVD for Win 8 will not work because the SSD-drive (120GB) is much smaller than the 500GB that is shipped with the computer. So it cannot partition the drive etc.
I used the Win8 recovery disks that came with the computer, and extracted the product-key after the successful recovery on the original 500GB HDD.
I have access to a Windows 8.1 Pro OEM disk purchased from Microsoft, but the key i extracted from the 8300 does not work. I have also tried the ABR tool, but it doesn't work either.
Any idea how to get this computer activated on Windows 8.1?
Thanks, Ingve.