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Before I start saying anything, I'm extremely new to these forums, and I have tried many options to fix my error.

I have recently gotten a used (But clean) Toshiba harman/kardon. It came with the options to dualboot in either Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.
When booting in Windows 7, even though the copy of 7 is expired and non genuine, I can boot Minecraft with no errors what so ever.
However, when I boot in a genuine copy of Windows 8.1 the game will crashed a few seconds from clicking play in the launcher, and I will receive the "Pixel format not accelerated" error.

My Video Driver is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, I have updated it and have no other driver option other than the Microsoft driver, which I have heard is a no. I once tried to download drivers without propper research and ended up having to use system recovery, it wasn't that big of a deal however.

Here is the log I get from the crash, any help would be much appreciated.

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.

Time: 6/08/14 4:45 AM
Description: Initializing game

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:252)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at bao.ag(SourceFile:340)
at bao.f(SourceFile:713)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Stacktrace:
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:252)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at bao.ag(SourceFile:340)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at bao.f(SourceFile:713)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.7.10
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (x86) version 6.3
Java Version: 1.7.0_67, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 45493648 bytes (43 MB) / 125042688 bytes (119 MB) up to 1060372480 bytes (1011 MB)
JVM Flags: 6 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx1G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Xmn128M
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
Launched Version: 1.7.10
LWJGL: 2.9.1
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
GL Caps:
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Packs: []
Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Anisotropic Filtering: Off (1)

I have a similar problem, different video card but ran Minecraft in Windows 7 fine but after updating to Windows 8 no go. Did you fix the problem? How?

Java seems up to date. Only thing that stands out is that error about OpenGL.