How to restart a computer that came with windows already installed.

I have a desktop with windows 8, which was installed by the manufacturer.  It crashed and tried to reload winows 8 of microsoft. Recovery usb I downloaded from microsoft was trying to restart windows 8.   Initial start-up asked me the windows KEY.  The key is loaded into the bios but is not visible.  How can I regain access windows KEY?  Thank you

You're telling me that the manufacturer could not / refuses to send you the installation media to restore their computer to condition "as delivered"?

Who is the manufacturer?  I know that Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Toshiba, etc all have them set up programs to help users specifically with (this installation/recovery to get to their systems support) as they agreed (in their license agreement with Microsoft) provide a method for the end user to do exactly this.

In many cases the 8/8.1 Windows product key is embedded in the BIOS at the factory for these machines.  You could read here on some methods for such a key - but honestly - you shouldn't have it (must be able to skip that part in installation and always get installed.):

https://itsolutionsblog.NET/3-ways-to-extract-the-Windows-8-product-key/

Otherwise, unless you provide the computer name of such manufacturer...  Here is the process for gt these media for some manufacturers:

Contacting OEM for recovery media:

You * REALLY * use support for recovery of the manufacturer when possible.

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