Blocked after failed update

Hello, Hope you are doing well,
5 or 6 days back i shut down my windows 8 laptop and it started updating. the update went on for about 8 to 10 hours and the machine restarted. on restart it said failed to update and it 'restored.'
the issue is that after this failed update i see a watermark on the left bottom corner that says Activate Windows. i ignored it for a few days, even went to 'PC settings' from the start menu but did not find a way to 'Activate' windows. I hope you are aware
that the windows 8 series isn't very user friendly when it comes to settings menu. so i went through a couple of threads and learnt that my key was blocked.
Help restore or update windows to an active version.
P.S.: I have brought a genuine windows 8 with the laptop from an HP certified dealer in Mumbai. the key was accepted by Microsoft on various occasions until this happened.
also the system was infected by a trojan and malware for about a month. which was removed by running bit-defender. Need any more info? please solve this issue.

Please repost your problem to the more appropriate Windows 8 Community Forums here...
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8?tab=Threads
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