original windows 8

Bishoy_samih

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I recently bought a hp laptop and it had an original windows 8 and after a while the HDD was damaged and I bought a new 240GB SSD drive and I didn't even know the serial number of the windows, is there anyway that i can get back the windows with the original serial ?
 

COLGeek

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The info is likely stored in your BIOS and will be detected by Windows during its installation. Do you have the original install media, or was that also on the original HDD? If on the HDD, you need to contact HP for installation media (since they provided the original OEM install).
 

Bishoy_samih

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no it was on the HDD, the laptop doesn't even have a DVD
how can i contact them ?