Format

[Giuseppe96]

Hi everyone, I need to format my pc, is a samsung laptop. I've bought with win 8.1 but i've not found any king of disk or windows license and i'm pretty sure that is not a trial because i've formatted with 8.1 and reinstalled the OS and i've bought it about 2 yrs ago. Now it is running win 10, if I format my drive i'll lose the license for the os? 

[Mazeman03]

Probably yes but if you factory restore and it came brand new with a os that os will be on it 

 

but not one you put on it

[Giuseppe96]

1 hour ago, Mazeman03 said:

Probably yes but if you factory restore and it came brand new with a os that os will be on it 

 

but not one you put on it

The manufacturer said me that i can't access to bios, so i'll format using a windows tool, i can't select the boot device or something else... i know this pc sucks i hope that i can buy another as soon as possible... 

[LogicalDrm]

Your key is imprinted in BIOS. It will activate automaticly when OS is installed. Safest way would be to use manufacturers recovery media, like said, and update to Win10 after that.