Retrieve Windows 8 Product Key from mainboard

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Published on 2012-12-27T10:18:20Z Indexed on 2014/06/02 21:46 UTC
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My new laptop came preinstalled with Windows 8. Naively, as I am, I just formatted the harddrive and installed fine old Ubuntu. Now I want to install Windows 8 for dual boot again, but I have no DVD and do download the ISO one needs a product key. That key is not on the back of the laptop anymore but somewhere on the mainboard.

Is there any way to recover the product key from the mainboard using Ubuntu?

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