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I have bought a new Dell Inspiron 15. It came with Windows 8.1 installed. But I want to replace it with Ubuntu (formatting OS partition & install Ubuntu), but afraid of loosing the original copy of Windows. Is it possible to recover windows later in future from recovery partition or recovery disks.
yes there is a silver sticker with a black coloured win8 logo on bottom – Raghav Mittal – 2014-07-03T13:40:54.673
can I use this key later to activate windows 8... I have a windows 8 volume license iso file. – Raghav Mittal – 2014-07-03T13:43:36.577
I don't know about the volume license. Go to Computer->Right click-> properties. Then next to the windows logo does it say 8.1 Core? If so then I would recommend a Windows 8.1 Core .iso. Download from here and then select the install from media option. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only You select the media device to put the .iso on and then you can boot from that to install Windows.
– Eejin – 2014-07-03T13:59:54.430Windows 8 OEM keys store the key inside the UEFI and no longer on a sticker. – magicandre1981 – 2014-07-03T18:23:55.727
@magicandre1981 Windows 8 Pro licenses aren't baked into the motherboard when they are activated by a upgrade key. As a matter of fact, I already mentioned this in my answer. – Eejin – 2014-07-03T18:33:16.703