Hello! (My first thread here!)
My mom bought a laptop online (I know how it sounds...). It's Lenovo's Thinkpad x240. Problem is, it appears to be running a pirated Windows 7. (Also it's not a clean installation, but just a computer that somebody used for some time. So I'd like to format it.)
I have few options to remedy that situations:
1) Since the laptop is supposed to serve to do office work, browse internet and watch movies, I thought I could just install Ubuntu. But, as it turns out, Lenovo's drivers for things like touchpad and battery management exist only for Windows.
2) I'm a student and I have acces to few license's trough Dreamspark. But using those might not be a permanent solution. Also it would again be kind of a violation of the rules.
3) When I enter BIOS, the "Preinstalled OS LIcense ******* PRO" is given there.
3a) Could this mean that I can legally reinstall Windows? I would very much like that.
3b) How do I check which version of Windows was preinstalled?
I followed the first two methods to retrieve the license key given in "How to Recover Windows 8/8.1 Product Key From BIOS" post at "Into Windows" blog.
Sadly the Windows-8-Product-Key-Viever had no "MSDM KEY" checkbox. But it did show some key.
The second method ran without problems but it showed different license key.
I am confused. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
My mom bought a laptop online (I know how it sounds...). It's Lenovo's Thinkpad x240. Problem is, it appears to be running a pirated Windows 7. (Also it's not a clean installation, but just a computer that somebody used for some time. So I'd like to format it.)
I have few options to remedy that situations:
1) Since the laptop is supposed to serve to do office work, browse internet and watch movies, I thought I could just install Ubuntu. But, as it turns out, Lenovo's drivers for things like touchpad and battery management exist only for Windows.
2) I'm a student and I have acces to few license's trough Dreamspark. But using those might not be a permanent solution. Also it would again be kind of a violation of the rules.
3) When I enter BIOS, the "Preinstalled OS LIcense ******* PRO" is given there.
3a) Could this mean that I can legally reinstall Windows? I would very much like that.
3b) How do I check which version of Windows was preinstalled?
I followed the first two methods to retrieve the license key given in "How to Recover Windows 8/8.1 Product Key From BIOS" post at "Into Windows" blog.
Sadly the Windows-8-Product-Key-Viever had no "MSDM KEY" checkbox. But it did show some key.
The second method ran without problems but it showed different license key.
I am confused. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance