Windows 10 Bought Windows 8 for my pc build in 2014. Somewhere along the line, I lost my activation key. Is there somewhere in my history to find it?

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I build my first pc around 2014 back when windows 8 was the main OS. Since then, I've upgraded basically every part of the PC and I've reinstalled windows various times. I got my free upgrade to windows 10 like everyone else did a while back, and somewhere along the line of all these upgrades, my installation of windows was considered Illegitimate. I don't have the box to the win8 copy anymore, so I don't think I have any access to my key anymore. I have tried to find a way to contact Microsoft support about this, but it seems like they have gone out of their way to make their support team as

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