Buying new HDD for laptop - What happens to WIndows? p755-s5269

Hi all, I am experiencing an unfortunate truth with my laptop. Windows (and Linux) both got excruciatingly slow yesterday for no reason whatsoever. Upon booting into Windows it said that my hard disk was going to kick the bucket sometime soon. So I called customer support and I did all that they told me to do, except buying the Windows Recovery CD. Firstly, the hard drive is going out, not the software so I was screwed anyway. So now that I have deleted the linux partitions, and now using a LiveUSB of OpenSUSE, I know I am going to lose Windows. However, I saw that there are product keys at the bottom of the laptop.
My question: What will happen to Windows 7 when my new HDD arrives? Will I not be able to transfer the OS key to the new hard drive? I can delete all of the partitions anyway to where I have nothing on the HDD if that will help.
Thanks in advanced!

Presumably it will use updated drivers when it creates the media.
No, Sally. That partition never changes. You get recovery media that restores the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents (including the hidden partition which contains the same old recovery image).
-Jerry

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