The windows Vista product key invalid

My portable hard drive to Toshipa satellite crashed.  Recovery disks to reinstall everything on the new drive hard and now my product key will not work.  I have only 2 uses more left in windows b/4 that I am locked out.  What should I do?

How to activate Windows 7 or Vista manually (activate by phone)
1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
(2) press the ENTER"" key.
(3) select your "country" in the list.
(4) choose the option "activate phone".
(5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with activation.

Also:
How to activate Windows Vista by phone
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/940315
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/10/13/how-to-activate-Windows-Vista-by-phone-activation/

Microsoft Activation centers worldwide telephone numbers:
http://www.Microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/activation-centers.aspx
(This site is for activating Volume License, but if you call, they will help you)

The phone number is not working:
Microsoft Wordwide contacts: http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/default.aspx

JS
http://www.PAGESTART.com

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