i want to activate my windows 8.1 enterprise build 9600 for free
Windows 8.1 Product Key and Activation
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Anonymous
About a week ago, I downloaded Windows 8.1 from MS Store. This was an upgrade for Windows 8 which came installed on my new HP PC.
The download was successful and Win 8.1 installed. However, Win 8.1 did not get activated and I keep getting a reminder screen to Activate Win 8.1.
This Activate Screen asks me to enter a Product Key. It gives me an error code of 0xc004c003 which states that the activation server has blocked my product key. It also gives the last five(5) characters of the blocked product key.
Well, I never entered a product key during the upgrade so I'm not sure where the product key came from.
I did a web search for the last five characters of the product key and it appears to be all over the web.
I used an application that showed the last fifteen(15) characters of the product key in my PC for Win 8.1 and they match the product key that I found all over the web.
It's no wonder that MS has blocked this key.
My question is. How do I activate Windows 8.1 since I have no product key. MS Store did not provide a key with the download.
Dennis J. Ferrier
Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Licensing and activation
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Anonymous
2015-08-08T03:16:57+00:00 -
Anonymous
2015-08-08T06:43:25+00:00 Enterprise licenses are Volume License products only with specific activation procedures. They are not sold to individuals and do not work with the standard on line activation servers. You would need to go back to your supplier organisation to get it activated.
As an individual why free? Everybody else pays for it.
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Anonymous
2015-08-08T16:40:06+00:00 I bought my pc used so I cannot go back to my supplier, in other words I bought it off another individual
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Anonymous
2015-08-08T17:01:22+00:00 In that case the license is illegal. Volume Licenses remain the property of the original licensee unless brokered as a sale of the entire block of the number originally purchased.
Volume Licenses cannot be bought as a block and sold off singly.
You need to find out what license the computer was sold with initially and try to recover that version of Windows, it would never have been an Enterprise license.
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Anonymous
2015-08-08T17:40:14+00:00 How do I do that ?
I have run belarc advisor and recovered the windows key and other information which does not work.