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Only triple checked? Only every inch? :)
Thanks for looking again, I hope it's on the disc or packaging.
I think you said that you tried the temporary key in Noel's post, but the response came back as invalid.
When i was looking for "Where does Toshiba hide the COA sticker" I saw more than a few references to "There's no COA sticker on the machine, just Toshiba's codes and Product IDs"
That's news to me. Maybe it's a Toshiba thing or maybe it's a Win8 thing. It might be a Win8 Pro with downgrade rights thing. Now I'm curious...
I'm back to the sidelines... I'm not helping solve the issue. I have enjoyed our conversation though
Bill
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Machines which shipped with Win8 have no CAO sticker - they have the Win8 sticker instead. Such machines can ONLY be downgraded to Win7 with the manufacturer's Recovery media, as the approved license is an OEM_SLP Key, which requires the manufacturer's media in conjunction with the BIOS SLIC table for self-activation.
The 063 error indicates that that the software licenses required from the manufacturer's media are missing - which is why the COA Key if it existed would be required. Since there is no Win 7 COA, there is nothing we can do in this forum - the only solution is to reformat and reinstall using the manufacturer's Recovery media for Win7 (or Win8)