Lost Windows 8 Disc

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RaveBeforeLunch

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I've had my Optimus IV for over a year now and I've decided to remove everything from my hard drive and start fresh. This is mainly because my PC's running slow and I desperately need to clear some disk space. Unfortunately, when I want to reinstall windows, I realised I lost my windows 8 DVD but I still have the OEM product key and all of the other disks that came with it except the windows DVD. I haven't removed windows yet and have tried to make a USB recovery drive but you can't reinstall windows just using a USB recovery drive.

Is there any way of reinstalling windows without the DVD? I'm just a bit surprised Microsoft don't have a way to reinstall windows with just the product key. If not will PCSpecialist replace my CD? How much would it cost to get it replaced?
 
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pepper1729

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RaveBeforeLunch said:
I've had my Optimus IV for over a year now and I've decided to remove everything from my hard drive and start fresh. This is mainly because my PC's running slow and I desperately need to clear some disk space. Unfortunately, when I want to reinstall windows, I realised I lost my windows 8 DVD but I still have the OEM product key and all of the other disks that came with it except the windows DVD. I haven't removed windows yet and have tried to make a USB recovery drive but you can't reinstall windows just using a USB recovery drive.

Is there any way of reinstalling windows without the DVD? I'm just a bit surprised Microsoft don't have a way to reinstall windows with just the product key. If not will PCSpecialist replace my CD? How much would it cost to get it replaced?
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If PCSpecialist cant help, just type "windows 8 iso download" in a search engine. as long as you have a genuine windows 8 key should be no problems.
 
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RaveBeforeLunch

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pepper1729 said:
If PCSpecialist cant help, just type "windows 8 iso download" in a search engine. as long as you have a genuine windows 8 key should be no problems.
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Yeah I'll probably end up doing this if I get no where with PCSpecialist. It's funny that I've resorted to 'piracy' considering this is the first expensive software I've bought in a while.
 
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CADMonkey

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Have you got a recovery partition? On my vortex I hit f8 on loading and get an option to reset to an out of the box state- Windows installed, but specific drivers need loading afterwards from disk
 
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pepper1729

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RaveBeforeLunch said:
Yeah I'll probably end up doing this if I get no where with PCSpecialist. It's funny that I've resorted to 'piracy' considering this is the first expensive software I've bought in a while.
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Not piracy, you can download legitimate os with 30 day trial that can only be activated with a genuine key
 
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