Product key Windows 8 should be not BIOS-based on new laptops from Dell?

Hello

My brother-in-law had a HD failure in his Win8 Inspiron 14z laptop. It had not generated the recovery DVDs.

I replaced with a new HD sound and used the Dell recovery DVDs on my daughter, I created 14z to restore with the Windows 8 factory image (no preserved user data).

His laptop started successfully to the State "new", and is now installing windows 136 updates.

I fear, however, because although on 'System', he does say that Windows is activated, the product ID is identical to my daughter 14z, and on the details 'activation', the last 5 characters of the product key shown are also the same.

Is this good? I wasn't expecting the recovery DVD Dell would be the product key; I assumed that Windows would he get from the BIOS.

Is there a way to "turn off" Windows and use the key to the BIOS?

Thank you!

See here - RWEverything to determine the product key, and then change the key to match one found by RWEverything:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-Microsoft-Windows-and-Office/Download-Microsoft-Windows/download-Windows-8-1-retail-and-OEM-ISO/

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