A friend of mine had an Inspiron all in one 2330.  They were having problems with it and asked me to get them a whole new desktop, and build it, which I did - a Dell of course :-).  I paid them for the older 2330.  The hard drive was bad, so I replaced it with a solid state drive.  Now I go to install Win 8.1 Pro and cannot activate.  Everything else is fine.

I want to use my version of Win 8.1 Pro and don’t care what was on it previously.  Can I somehow remove all BIOS entries from the original install so I can activate my Win 8.1 Pro?  Or…any other suggestions?  I have no data on the PC, so along with any other operations, I can re-install Win 8.1 Pro with no problem.

Thanks in advance.