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I have had several problems trying to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 8.1 so as it was booting in UEFI mode, as I'm not that into PC games, I decided to format the hard drive and just install Ubuntu. Now I find I need Windows, but I need the product key to download it which is supposed to be in the BIOS.

  • How can I find out my windows key from the BIOS?
  • As I will install Windows in some free space I reserved in the hard drive, is it going to erase my Ubuntu bootloader? Can I recover that later?
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sudo hexdump -s 56 -e '"MSDM key: " /29 "%s\n"'  /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
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