Hi, First off.I'm not a big fan of some of the things in Win 8, but a 'Hidden Bios Key' is not something that can be blamed on Microsoft.I myself personally doubt if such a thing even exists. You are not the first person to mention this though. If such a thing DOES exist, it is the doing of the computer manufacturer, not Microsoft. I have installed Win 8 on three machines, switched drives. Switched from HDD to SSD and vice versa, and have seen absolutely ZERO indication of any hidden key in bios.

Sep 16, 2016 A friend backed up his data with onekey because his HDD was failing. Has anyone recovered data from a Lenovo OneKey Recovery backup >100gig. OneKey Recovery 7.0 - System Backup.

One machine is a Compaq, and the others I built myself. Whether your backups work or not has a lot to do with what was backed up.

If you only backed up Windows to an Image, you will have problems replacing a HDD. This is because there are probably 2 other partitions on the HDD, and to a certain degree, expect the others to be there. You can possibly overcome that by doing a Boot Repair. Fast Email Extractor Pro V5.1 Crack more. As a general rule, windows and or the OEM type recovery disks don't work well with a smaller HDD or SSD partition.larger, possibly.

If you really want to have a surefire system for manipulating your system, quit playing with the built in windows stuff and get a good bootable 3rd party partitioning DiskManagement utility. Hello Again, I have no experience with Serial Keys embedded in the BIOS I guess. Die Hard Arcade Game. my Compaq uses UEFI BIOS with preinstalled Win 7 Home.

I have switched to a SSD using an Acronis Image without any complaint from the OS.but this is Win 7. I have upgraded it to Win 8 Pro doing a clean install by reformatting the OEM HDD partition with Win 8 during the Install.also without a problem, and then restored an Acronis Image to The SSD without a problem. On one occassion, when playing around eliminating some extra partitions on the HDD, Win 7 refused to boot. A Boot Repair with ANY Win 7 installation disk solved the problem.

The was due to boot files stored on the other partitions though, not the BIOS. If in fact your key is embedded in BIOS, my guess as to the reason is because ALL Win 8 installations are different than Win 7 and previous versions in the way the Key is entered. Card Credit Generator Software. Until Win 8, you could install any OS without a Key, and activate it after installation is complete. Easier for preinstalled applications I would think.

Now.a valid Key must be entered to procede with the installation.and BIOS would be a convient place to store it. Win 8 doesn't seem to care about the HDD, although Restoring an Image to a smaller partition drive may be a problem if the software being used is not capable of 'Shrinking' it to fit.