Windows 7 64-bit activation key.

I was running Windows 7 Home Premium until 1 day I booted up and the laptop failed to boot. 'No bootable media found' (Or something like)
So I put in a new hard drive, re-imaged with my backup from an external USB drive, and now we are back in business. Except that Windows 7 is not activated and when I try to activate I get ' The Windows 7 Home Premium product key you typed is invalid for activation'
Well, I didn't type the product key, it is the one that was on the pre-installed Windows when I bought the laptop.
And the options available are:
Buy a new key
Use a different key
Contact Lenovo
Contacting Lenovo doesn't seem to be an option without a paid for support contract which doesn't seem either fair or reasonable to me.
Is it possible to get new restore discs from Lenovo? With or without a key?
Cheers
John
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Just to add to this, I ran into a problem as well with a re-installation of Windows 7 64bit not working. My backup partition became corrupt, so I was told to download a copy of Windows from DigitalRiver and activate it with the serial number on the back of my computer.
I entered the serial number during installation and it worked fine, but when it finished installing and it came time to actually activate the copy, I got a message stating it was invalid. I even tried the phone activation and that didn't work.
Upon close inspection, I noticed the activation code listed in Windows was not the one I had originally entered, it was some other one with the letters "OEM" in it. So I re-entered my Windows activation code that was on the back of my computer, and it activated fine.
I'm not sure why it changed to some other OEM activation code, but just be aware you may need to re-enter the one on your computer.

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Hi,
me again :-)
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Regards,
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