I had a hard drive failure in an Alienware m14x. I have since purchased a new drive and installed. The laptop did not come with any installation media so I downloaded and created uefi boot usbs for Windows 8 and 8.1. Both regular and Pro versions. I am able to pull the product key from the bios using different tools but windows still doesn't activate to any version of windows 8 I install. Do I need a special version from Dell?
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