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I just bought a new Dell XPS 13 with win10 pre-installed. I want to completely wipe the drive and install Ubuntu 16.04. But before I do that I would like to extract the oem product key. I've tried using neo-smart tools and rw-everything as well as booting into a linux live cd and extracting it via cat /sys/firmware...
but nothing works. I don't have an MSDM tab. How can I get my product key?
I downloaded and ran showkeyplus and have a field called "installed key". I just want to clarify that if I want to re-install win10, that product key will work.
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Possible duplicate of Uninstall Windows 10, but save licence key
– DavidPostill – 2016-05-12T19:11:52.670@DavidPostill - Yes...There is. The device came with Windows 10 which means its stored within firmware just like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 – Ramhound – 2016-05-12T21:16:56.243
ShowKeyPlus will display the key. Of course getting this key is entirely not required in order to install an OEM Windows 10 machine. – Ramhound – 2016-05-12T21:20:40.057
@Ramhhound I had an issue where I installed linux on my older XPS and could no longer install win8.1 or extract the product key. I'm trying to play it safe. – user3577138 – 2016-05-12T21:33:08.147