Windows7 pro oem activation

Hi All,
I have got a Toshiba Tecra laptop it came with windows7 Pro installed but with windows 8 recovery. I had to replace the harddisk and I could not restore windows7 back to it so I had to download windows 7. First I could not install the OS.
I had to disable UEFI and CSM to install the OS. I am finding it really hard to activate it and Toshiba support charge £30 ish poung for recovery dvd. I have validated the windows at
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/genuine but unable to activate it. Could someone please help me or at least give me a microsoft number or something to activate it.
Thanks,

I would remember not to buy from Toshiba or any other this kind of OEM manufacturer in the future.
Unfortunately, all OEM notebook computers pre-licensed/pre-installed with Windows, don't have the Windows product key on the sticker any more.
And, in the near future, dual-licensed/downgradable (Windows8 + Windows7) will cease.
Both of these OEM licensing offerings are controlled by MSFT, not by the OEMs.
In my organisation, we have a lot of Toshiba notebooks (20,000), and for the product key vs. COA vs. recovery-media, this situation has been in place for quite some time.
Whenever anybody buys a new computer from a Tier1 OEM, it's best to use the OEM recovery software utility to create the recovery media (either DVD or UFD).
It's the very first thing you should do when you buy a new computer (in my opinion).
(Even though in my organisation we don't use the OEM factory media for our deployments, it's handy to have the OEM as a reference)
If you must have Windows7 on this computer, you will need to spend the money on the Toshiba recovery DVD (or contact somebody who has the exactly identical model, and use their recovery media or their computer to create a recovery set).
(The Tecra R940 does use a common mainboard with other models such as Portege R930, Tecra R950, and some others too, so the recovery media will be the same)
Don
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