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Backup Disk is damaged, help!
Long story short, I had to wipe my computer and reinstall Windows from three backup disks that should reset it to its default settings. I have three HP recovery disks - disk one works fine and reinstalls around 33% of it. Disk 2 worked once and got it up to around 70%, and then disk 3 failed. I tried it again and now disk 2 isn't even being recognised the HP recovery thing just spits the disk back out. I've had these disks for years so they're probably damaged in some way.
I have Ubuntu Linux on a USB that I can use in an emergency like this just to get a working Windows iso from the Internet, but I can't get it from the software recovery website because it the product key is for a Windows installation that was pre-installed.
I have no way of reinstalling Windows, unless there's something I don't know about. Please help, I'm sort of freaking out here! If you have a solution please explain it as simply as possible because I don't know much about this stuff.