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Old July 14th 15, 05:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
. . .winston
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Default Windows Refresh Question

Ron wrote:
If a laptop came with W8 and was upgraded to W8.1 can it be refreshed
using this media?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-refresh-media

If so do you have to have a key for it?


The media is intened for reinstall or installing 8.1 and accepts a 8.0
or 8.1 product key. It is not for refresh purposes nor is it intended
as the insertable media when requested to be inserted during the refresh
process.
- i.e. use the 8.0/8.1 media provided or created with the pc (OEM
Recovery disk, 8.0 upgrade media, 8.1 full version media, user created
8.0/8.1 recovery disk)

If the laptop was upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1 the recovery partition on the
drive as shipped and after upgrading to 8.1 was an 8.0 recovery partition.

If the laptop has the key on firmware...the media can be use to install
or reinstall without the need for the key. It as noted above is not
media for refresh.




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