Windows activation after recovery

Hello Jeff, Sir bundle of thanks that u always reply to my post on forum but no response from your team after I reply to your mail.... that is after sending my details to u... plz sir tell me some online solution as I can't visit HP center because it will be almost a thousand mile from my home ..... plz this time help me

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I recently had a problem with my system and my HDD showed short DST error on diagnostics... so I replaced my HDD with a new one and installed win 8 64 bits from my recovery drive backup on a USB..... it installed flawlessly..... but when i its message centre continuously displaying ' activate windows ' and saying 'windows activation server determind that specified product key has been blocked' ....... My windows was genuine .... how to activate it???? plz help ....

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Well this is what happend. When i bought my laptop Qosmio x300-15r I made a recovery cd.
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you can use the product key in your battery's laptop compartment to reactiviate the OS.
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Notebook: HP-430 Notebook
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HDD: 298 GB
When i newly bought my HP-430 notebook, I re-partitioned HDD using some other third party software.I created one additional partition (M:\). Here is the info, of how i had repartitioned....
C:\ - 100GB (changed from 284 GB to 100 GB).
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Hi,
I don't believe that any of the recovery options from the Disc will retain your custom partition - As far as I know, the only time you will get a prompt to keep a custom partition is when using the 'Minimized Image Recovery' option from the Recovery Partition D which you have removed.
You could try the following work-around.
Download the correct Windows 7 Disc Image from the link below - this must be exactly the same version as your OEM installation - ie if your notebook came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit this is the version you would need to download.
Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
Use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly to a blank DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here.
Use the disc you create to perform the installation - when you get to the option to choose the type of installation, choose Custom and select the C partition.
When asked, enter the Windows activation key found on the underside of your notebook, then when the installation has completed, use the 'Phone Method' detailed in the link below to activate the OS - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who just want a clean installation of Windows 7 without the additional software load normally bundled with OEM installations.
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
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That is curious with a Recovery. First, try to reset the password using NTPassword. Make the CD, boot to it following the directions. If that does not solve the signon problem, consider installing the OS from a regular Windows 7 disk of the same version, using the key from the COA sticker.
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