So whats the rescue when we fall in trouble? What if I need my custom partitions on hard disk and hate to see the recovery drive taking up almost 10 GB of my valuable hard disk space.

Changes are with respect to hard disk partition, clean installation, dual booting with Linux etc. OK, as a very basic home/office user I may be happy to use my laptop without making any sort of changes to it. They may be called as new features or even logical restrictions from my point of view. Its just that people like me, who bought new laptops are not familiar with the new things that have been introduced. Well, its not that of a mountain of troubles. But if your system came pre-installed with Windows 8 OEM then you will be facing loads of trouble.

Now, if you were on an old laptop with UEFI boot which did not came pre-installed with Windows 8 OEM then you are good to go. In my previous post, I wrote about how to make a Windows 8 installation pendrive bootable in UEFI mode. 19 Solve Windows 8 Clean Installation Product Key Do Not Match Problem

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