A friend asked me to help him dual boot a Dell Inspiron laptop.
He had Windows 7 Pro and wanted to try out Windows 8 Pro, so he bought an OEM installation disk.
I set up a second partition and did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro into it (using the .\sources\setup.exe installer).
I did not notice anything unusual in the installation, except it never asked for a product key.
After the...
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