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Like I said let's give it a shot. 

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Alright. Thanks for the help
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There is a chance it will not activate. Post back if that happens. 

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Hey
If that happens can it still bee fixed.
Or did I buy the hard drive unnecessarily

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Yes it can be fixed. We may just need to load Windows on it a different way. 

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Thank you
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Hey
I put the new hard drive in. And installed Windows 8.1
And reached ta step that I was given to same options.
Chose windows 8.1 volym 4 .
And after the it told me to take some thing out : D
And after that it was black and blue with some text
Saying
Selected boot image did not authenticated. Press enter to continue
????
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That's what I was afraid of. Your restore disk is not going to work. We need to find another way to get Windows on it. 

 

 

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How? ??
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