Upgrade Windows 10 for PC socket

I recently bought an X 51 R2 from the store and it's been great, but I think to come.

The PC came without any installation media, which was as advertised and I was aware. So I'll create recovery blah blah blah media, but there is an offer to allow all Windows 8.1 (or 7) user upgrade OS of Windows 10 free with a window of 1 year when the new OS is released.

Anyone know if this offer is still open for me? There is a serial number on the PC, but no Windows license information. Can I use the tag to find my key? I know that I can use something like Belarc to dig in the registry, but I still wonder if my current key is even evolutionary.

No biggy either, just curious.

As long as windows 8.1 is installed, you will be able to upgrade for free. The key is integrated into the motherboard and is not able to be recovered by any program and is not available from Dell. You should do all the recovery disks and image of the system in order to preserve the recovery Partition to reinstall windows in the event of hard disk failure. Windows has the recovery options you need. Buy a couple of thumb push to make the bootable recovery disc (16 GB or more) and an external hard drive or a separate second hard drive to the system image and history file backups. Open Control Panel and search for recovery tools.

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