Error code: 0x80072EE7 when Activating Windows 8.

[Lyfer]

One of my rig's HDD failed so I got a new HDD replacement today. It previously had Windows 7 (purchased thru MSDN/dreamspark). I bought a copy of Windows 8 today from dreamspark, got my SN through email and decided I could use my brothers OEM DVD of Windows 8 (he bought this dvd a while back from our university bookstore which SHOULD be under the same kind of license) to install instead of waiting an hour to download the ISO from dreamspark.

After the installation, when activating, I get error 0x80072EE7 ""The server name or address could not be resolved". Eh wtf. I'm downloading the image now as we speak to give it a try, but I don't have any blank DVD's (will have to pick them up later this week when I'm free).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Lyfer]

Called them. Fixed. This was one of the worst experiences of installing an OS.

 

[Smoblikat]

Im glad its fixed, when I got that error (or a similar one) all I had to do was change the date/time to the current one.