I am fixing a laptop for a friend. The hard drive went out and needed to be replaced. After replacing the hard drive, I discover that I cannot purchase the recovery media for this laptop off the HP Support Page. I can't reinstall everything manually because there is no Windows Product Key Label on it to activate Windows. How do I get the recovery media for this thing? I installed Windows 8.1 Pro with no product key to be able to use it to get the recovery going but I cannot find it on HP's Support Page. I have an old HP Pavilion Desktop in the living room that shows its recovery media for that computer. Why not the laptops? Why do they not include the darned Windows Product Labels anymore? How do I activate windows??????? This is lame.
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