But to have the process run smoothly you will need the right windows 8 10 installation media that matches the one stored in bios.
Get windows 10 license key from bios.
If you re planning on doing a reinstall of windows but can t find your product key you re in luck because it s stored in the windows registry.
In other words it shows the original windows key your computer came with.
Right click on the start button and click on run.
If that s the case it simply means that our product key is stored into the windows registry.
For more information about digital licenses and product keys in windows 10 see the methods of activation section in activate windows 10.
Your windows license key will appear.
If your product key is scratched blurred or otherwise unusable contact the retailer who sold you the product.
This will work on windows 10 8 1 7 vista.
If you aren t able to get help from your retailer or have already tried and couldn t get a working key call microsoft support.
As you can see in the screenshot above the product id is stored in the registry but is in a binary format that can t be read by.
Windows 10 product key tool made by the developer of easybcd this tool located our uefi oem key but didn t find the retail license on our windows to go drive.
Winkeyfinder found our retail.
Luckily we re here to help.
Theoretically you will never be asked for a key to activate your machine.
This only means that in order to recover it we will need to use the good old produkey tool by nirsoft which helps users and sysadmins to recover windows office and sql server serial numbers license keys and product keys since 2005.
This method displays the windows product key stored in your computer s bios or uefi firmware.
In windows 10 the product key will probably be encrypted tied to your microsoft account and stored by microsoft.
If you ve installed windows with a different key since then or acquired a digital license it will be different.
Despite the rather rusty interface it still.