Dead hard drive - need to replace and reinstall without recovery disks

[Virtual Patient]

sorry glussier - I can't see the link?

[glussier]

Sorry, my mistake: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-refresh-media

Just click on the create media button, select your version and language and there you go.

[Virtual Patient]

downloading and creating media now - will check back when I have had chance to run them. Thank you for your assistance.

[Virtual Patient]

Thank you glussier, I have now installed the operating system as you instructed and it appears to have found it's licence number. At least I hope it has, it seems to be running just fine for now.

Thank you all again for your assistance

[glussier]

I'm sure that windows did find the key, as, since windows 8.0 oem computers have their keys imbedded in the bios.