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I want to somehow recover the factory Windows 8.1 on a Lonovo MIIX 300-10IBY 80NR.
A good friend asked me to do this after an IT guy installed Win 10 pro to the machine and it obviously can't be activated.
The previous Win install was deleted so you can't simply roll back. Another nice touch is that there is now a secondary recovery partition on the drive and who knows wats that because thats only 450MB and the factory recovery partition is 5.31GB which is still on the drive.
When you hit the recovery option in the firmware it throws a 0x000000F error so thats a no go. If I'm correct the MS downladable Win 8.1 ISOs won't accept the embeded OEM OS key so thats also a no go.
Is there anything I can do to get the original Win 8.1 back?
The retail ISO doesn't work. I tried it and and the 8.1 installer tells me that the key doesn't matches the image or something like that. Maybe it would work if I don't provide a key only on windows activation after install. I will try that, but I'm not hopefull. – Laci K – 2017-12-14T01:28:19.647