Not to rub salt in the wound, but issues like this are why the first thing I do with any laptop / pre-built is to burn off the restore disks. OEM licenses are supported by the manufacturer as opposed to Microsoft, and the manufacturers typically only support images of the original install as opposed to stand-alone windows installs.
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