Microsoft Vista Home Premium Product Key worn off

The product key is worn off the sticker on the bottom of my Compaq Presario CQ60 215DX.  I just replaced my hard drive as it crashed.  My 3 Recovery Disks do not work (I created them as soon as I bought the laptop).  I need to know how to obtain the Vista Home Premium Product Key that I have already paid for as part of my purchase of the computer.  HP, based on my serial number, shouldn't you have this information and be able to provide it readily?

Truth be told, no one on the forums here will be able to tell you what your product key is.
If you were able to boot into the Windows that was installed on the old hard drive, there are some utilities out there to retrieve it. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case since the hard drive was replaced and I take it you could not longer boot into Windows on that old drive either.
The best option would be to contact HP support to see if they might have the recovery disks from the factory still available. I suggest this as the hard drive image on those disks will have the product key already activated and ready to go. Once that is backup and going from the recovery disks, then you can use a program to retrieve the product key.
As of this time, the recovery disks can be ordered here. However, I recommend calling HP since the recovery disks you made are not working as they may have some options not available on the site.
The factory recovery disks should get you going again with the original software with an activated Windows key.
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