Okie, so i finally recieved my replacement hard drive from hp after my old hard drive became infected with something and ...well broke. but lasttime it happened the hard drive was sent with all the formatting and windows installation done. this time, however, it wasnt.
I have the windows xp professional disk but unfortunetly lost its case some time ago and thus have no serial key for it. i contacted HP but they seem pretty damn stuck on not giving me a new one. So I was wondering, does anyone know how i can get a replacement key or get around having to enter the key? or am i screwed?
on a side note, i would like to strongly advice against anyone ever purchasing a computer from hp/compaq in the future. worst machine i've ever bought, worst costumer service i've ever recieved.