Toshiba Win 8 Laptop - HD Failed - No Recovery Disks - Options?

Sep 28, 2013

I downloaded MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.1.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD but it wants a product key when I boot from it.

I thought it was supposed to take the product key that is embedded in the BIOS? UEFI is on on BIOS. Am I using the wrong version of Windows 8 DVD?

Toshiba C855-S5350 . I believe it came with Win 8 (regular) x64 . I just want to reinstall the OS.

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I reordered to boot from SATA ODD
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