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Originally Posted by monster
From what I've been reading recently on the internet, it seems you can do clean install as much as you want, and even transfer the license/OS to a different computer. However, there must always be a qualified OS installed on the computer when you're installing Windows 8. If you want to do a clean install without having any qualified OS installed, then you'd have to use the system builder version of Windows 8. To do a clean install, you boot from the install media, and once the installer detects that a qualified OS is installed, you have the option to format and proceed to clean install.
* I'm not entirely sure about the part in bold, but it seems to be the case.
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Someone posted this thing on another forum. He said that he did a totally clean install, but as he expected, the key wouldn't activate. Turns out he found a workaround online and had his key activated. You supposedly regedit, go into "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE" and change "MediaBootInstall" from "1" to "0" . You then open cmd as admin and use "slmgr /rearm", ok and restart, and it's supposedly activated.
Not sure if it really works, but it should. I did a clean install but I had Windows installed on the partition before telling it to erase it, so I'm not sure if Windows actually checked beforehand, but I had no problem activating... Then again, that was my second installation :P