Installing Win8 from ISO image error

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Published on 2012-12-10T03:21:40Z Indexed on 2012/12/10 5:09 UTC
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I installed a new SSD in my PC laptop which came with an OEM version of Windows 8. After trying unsuccesfully to get the OEM version of Windows onto the SSD drive I gave up and purchased and downloaded a NEW copy of Windows 8. After that I created an ISO image on my desktop machine and followed the instructions here to create a bootable USB flash drive.

However, after going through the boot install process with the USB flash drive on my laptop I get the following message 'The product key entered does not match any of the Windows images available for installation. Enter a different product key.'
But I wasn't asked to enter any key!

Is this because the ISO image was created on a different machine? I really don't get why this should be so difficult.

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