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win7 activation after recovery discs installation.
Hi Guys,
Did a fix there recently on a HP pavilion. it suffered a hard drive failure and there was no recovery discs in situ. I purchased a replacement hd and purchased recovery discs from hp. So the build went fine and everything installed ok. Then it asked me for the product key. Now I have several win7 discs but the only reason I had purchased the recovery discs is because the key sticker had faded and was illegible.
So after spending 38 bucks on these discs I cant get past the activation issue.
I was able to read an xp key before in the OS but when i googled this procedure for win7 I ran into all kinds of key finding tools etc. I tried 4 but none of them worked, they gave me keys but activation rejected them as default keys.
Anyone have a quick fix to my longwinded issue???
Thanks guys, any assist would make life easier.
al