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3. Windows 8 Embedded Product Key
4. Find Embedded Windows Key
5. Windows 8 Embedded Serial Key Tool
6. Windows 8.1 Embedded Serial Key

Do you remember the good old times when PC manufacturers used to apply those fancy stickers to the back of your laptop or desktop PC depicting your Windows Product Key? If you’re a system administrator you probably already know that these times are gone since Windows 8. Now almost every PC with a pre-installed copy of a Windows OS doesn’t show any physical info or evidence of its product key, nor it features a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) sticker on its back, battery bay or any other place.

Luckily, there is still an easy way to recover Windows 8 OEM product key which is embedded in BIOS. Product Key Finder is a handy program that could helps you to extract Windows 8 product key from any laptop or desktop PC which comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. Windows 8 Product Key 2019 [Latest] 100% Working. Windows 8 Product Key 2019 is an operating system which is better with the newest features.It’s setting up this OS on the order of theirs to enjoy the choices that are included with this particular operating phone. I'm a computer technician and we started selling few Windows 8 machine. We saw the new COA label does not show the key and after reading a little bit online, realized those systems came with the key. Reinstall Windows 8 on a Windows 8 based system with embedded key.

The product key is now embedded into the computer BIOS or UEFI, and it can only be accessed there: this also means that we don’t need to type it anymore, because it’s automatically fetched by the OS during the install phase. This can be really good at times, because you won’t ever need to remember or protect it – the system will do the hard work for you. However, it can become a huge problem if you ever need to type it, which is something that can always happen in some edge-case scenarious such as: relevant hardware upgrades, damaged/erased BIOS, OS upgrades, reinstall using a different ISO image and so on.

Whenever such things happens, we most certainly want (or would’ve wanted) a way to retrieve that product key before it’s too late. Luckily enough, there’s a great freeware tool that comes to the rescue: it’s called Windows 10 Product Key Tool and is made by NeoSmart technologies, the same guys that developed the great EasyBCD software (if you don’t know it, check it out!). The tool is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

This handy tool can be downloaded here from the NeoSmart official blog. Once executed, it will retrieve our Windows Product Key from the BIOS / UEFI and show it to us in a convenient pop-up window:

In case the Windows installation has been performed by manually typing a OEM Product Key or using the free Windows 10 upgrade offer from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, this tool won’t find anything in the BIOS / UEFI records, thus showing a “Unable to open MSDM table” error message instead:

Windows 8 Embedded Industry Product Key

If that’s the case, it simply means that our Product Key is stored into the Windows Registry. Don’t worry! 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. Despite the rather rusty interface it still flawlessly gets the job done, just like it used to do since the early days of Windows XP:

That’s it for now: happy recover!

Windows 8 Embedded Serial Key Generator

I did a fresh install of Win 8 on my PC, I was told the OEM product key will automatically supplied in the installtion. However, it did not happen in my case... this is the method i used to install Windows 8. Now im stuck with an unregistered Win 8. I'm wondering, now, if there's a way to extract the Product Key from my BIOS?

Edit: my pc came with OEM Windows 8 installed

6 Answers

See this tutorial for more help:

Windows 8 clean install from iso using the machines own Windows 8 OEM licence

The BIOS does store the OEM key. If you make a clean install on an unparticioned HDD with an MSDN installer, it can detect the key. However, the windows edition of the key must match the edition of the installer (Pro, with or without Media Center Pack, Enterprise, etc.). If the two don't match, the installer will prompt to enter the key and activate Windows.

Here's another interesting tutorial, to install a different version of Windows 8:

Installing Windows 8 Pro over Standard OEM in your new Win8 Certified notebookhttp://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/698920-installing-windows-8-pro-over-standard-oem-your-new-win8-certified-notebook.html

Download RW-EVERYTHING. Run it. Click on the ACPI Table button at the top. After that click on the MSDM tab. Your BIOS's product key is at the bottom.

When the program opens just remember to close the bottom windows first - having two windows open can cause the program to crash.

I tested this program because I had a hdd crash and had to clone the hard drive to a new one. I did a factory restore on the new drive, and then of course it wanted to be reactivated. This program helped me retrieve the key.

Windows 8 Embedded Product Key

The free OEM Product Key Tool from NeoSmart Technologies is probably the most straight-forward way of doing this. Just run the standalone exe and it'll come up in the main dialog like this:

Disclosure: I work for NeoSmart

I had a similar situation... Brand new Dell M3800 and I immediately scratched all the disk to install Linux on the thing, and as a result I 'lost' the key. Still, I wanted to install 'my' Windows version into a VM (it comes on a USB stick).

So here is what I did:

• dump the USB key (the entire device) to an image file (using dd),
• dump the ACPI tables using acpidump.

As an answer mentions above, the table to look for is MSDM; the product key is the last characters in this table.

From my experience, the OEM product key in the BIOS was never supplied at installation. I recommend those who wish to do a fresh install of Windows 8 on an OEM machine obtain the OEM Product Key first by using this tool (This step is important, because if you perform a fresh install without having obtained your OEM key, it would be extremely difficult to extract the product key from your BIOS). After formatting and a fresh install, enter your OEM product key manually. Immediately after the entry, your Windows 8 will automatically be activated (it does not require online activation). Good luck!

Find Embedded Windows Key

There is no product key in your BIOS. As you correctly said, the key is automatically supplied in the installation. Since you didn't install using the OEM's installer, the key was not supplied during the installation. You need to install with the OEM's Windows 8 installation media or with the OEM's recovery method.

Windows 8 Embedded Serial Key Tool

Windows 8.1 Embedded Serial Key

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