Windows 10 ISO on HP Stream 14 - no product key :(

Hi, I decided to let the Windows 10 upgrade take place and somehow managed to corrup the partition. So I decided after many attempts to fix to download the ISO and blat the old images partition and extend the primary partition and create and extra 6GB of space. I've installed Windows 10 fine and all working ok ....except it is asking for the product key. I can see in many forums that t mentions it is in the BIOS, but when I check - I can't find it? Any ideas? Thanks, P.

Did you save a copy of the files on the Recovery Partiition? You just need one of them to create a recovery drive, it is the largest one, install.wim it is about 6 GB.Download the media creation tool for windows 8.1 and download the iso file to make a clean installation of Windows then you have to copy the install.wim to your hard drive in a folder C:\Win81, then register your "install.wim" file as the recovery image.Open the command prompt as Administrator and put:- REAGENTC /SetOSImage /Path C:\Win81\install.wim /Index 1Check if everything is correct with the command:- REAGENTC /infoAnd then configure the system to start Windows RE next time the system starts up:- REAGENTC /boottoreRestart your system, it is going to start the HP reset for Windows 8.1

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