downgraded from Win8 to Win7

Richierich8132

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Jan 14, 2014
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Have a toshiba laptop came preinstalled w Win8 i pulled hdd and wiped it with my desktop and installed windows 7 on it and put it back in and laptop displays no boot device what did i do wrong and what can i do to fix it dont have original Win8 install disc.

And also can i use someone elses Win8 disc to install and use my key from my comp or does it work that way .

Any help would be fantastic thank you.
 

USAFRet

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So you installed Windows while it was in the desktop, and then put it back in the laptop. As you have seen, that usualy doesn't work.

If you have a valid activation key, you should be able to use any Win8 install disk (of the same version).