If you have your retail key follow my instructions. You can not re-use a phone activation number string. You have to do phone activation over again.
heres a hard one theres a command for to see what your activation is from has all the details and i cant remember what it is it pretty much dumps every thing to do with it i know it starts slmgr.vbs just dont remeber the switch or the sub-command
I just been running a old copy of MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.PROFESSIONAL.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT that I activated over phone way back when. Your saying the key MS gave me over the phone won't work to do a clean in stall windows8.1 pro what about on a upgrade instead of clean install ?
Anyone know if there has been a leak of Server 2012 R2 ISO ? I've been on Google, but heaps of links are getting redacted and i can't seem to find anything here? Thanks
Did they give you an actual retail key? Or did you use KMS activations and then use a free WMC key and do the phone activation? You have to use the keys provided with the WZ ISO to install it. It does not actually activate just lets you install. To activate you must have your actual retail key and on first boot change to your actual retail key.
Getting me confused I installed the old win8pro WZT and then went thru the MS phone process to get it activated as i remember you keep swapping entering number strings back and forth with MS on the phone recording and at the end MS gives you a key to enter and that activated it been working ever since Don't know if its a actual retail key just know it activated it ????
What you got what the phone activation string to phone activate windows. That is not a key. Did you have Windows Media Center Installed when you called? Where did you obtain your retail key? Or did you use a MAK key with KMS emulation with the WZ ISO and then add Windows Media Center? The way you did it matters to be able to answer you correctly.
Ok very very odd thing just happened. I installed 8.1 Pro x64 using the default key c9wkb one. After installing i was activated when i reached desktop :S. Not only this but i entered my "Free WMC key that i got last year" and then i restarted PC after it installed all files. I was then not activated. I clicked activate and boom.. Activated no phone call no nothing. I tried the same on 2 other machines with the same install media and i had to phone activate the retail key then phone activate the media center one also.. Very odd. Backed up my whole SPP folder for future use just in case something happens.
No I don't have Windows Media Center installed just WMP I installed like one of the first releases of win8pro back when it was first released RTM like now
Did you buy a retail key then and use that to install 8.0 WZ ISO? But in any event you will need to install the 8.1 WZ ISO with the key provided and then after install use a real retail key to activate it.
Why do you guys strongly prefer mega.co.nz? my download there always get stuck.. Haven't you experiencing it? :|