How to recover Windows 8/8.1 OEM product key from BIOS

Right-click the ProductId key and select Modify. But since Windows 8 Microsoft made a change. This means that Windows settings will be erased and the default settings will be installed without losing your data.

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How to Recover Windows 8/8.1 OEM Product Key from BIOS - Windows will identify this and automatically activate your installation. To read Windows 7, Windows 8.

I downloaded Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder to find out the product key, and then formatted the hdd. Sadly the key didn't work. By the way, why is it missing? Unless I'm doing something wrong? But my current issue is one of the strangest things I've encountered in all these years. Have been searching through a lot of posts but haven't found any similar issue or. Backup and Restore Hello everybody! I received a laptop awhile back that came pre-installed with Windows 8 which I did not enjoy, so I decided to downgrade to Windows 7. Which has been going fine and everything is good, but 2~3 weeks ago I had some questions involving my computers performance that I also requested. It would not boot into windows so I did a reinstall on it. They key I had written down. I am just getting into virtualization. So my solution would have been to.