Factory faulty HDD needs replacement and hence new OS.

My HP Probook 4545s was shipped with an HDD fault, the system would not book and hence go into the black and white diagnostics screen, the after it failed HDD tests it would say no operating system found etc. I went to my local HP reps and they said the HDD needed replacing and I would have to install a new OS. With the HDD replaced, I would have to install a new OS, however, I was given an OS CD (one for w7 and one for w8, the pc was displayed as w8, but came as w7) on purchase, but it did not come with a CD Key. I do not want to have the activate windows prompt coming onto my screen ever so often, so I was wondering if I could somehow source a CD Key for my OS CD. The normal answer would be to buy a new genuine copy, however, this was not my fault as it was, as stated, a faulty HDD.
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No-the info is in BIOS, not on the old hdd.
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