Windows 7 pro. Two characters rubbed off during shipping. Cannot complete the installation.

It's a HP workstation I bought for video editing. The product key I have missing two letter (and or numbers) it seems to have been rubbed off during shipping. Windows is already on the machine and prepares the machine for a first use, when I started. Try as I might I could not understand what are these two characters. I tried to guess but it far too long. Is there another way. I have the disc and the booklet. I bought it on ebay from a store computer about 6 months ago. This is a 25 character key in the format. XXXxX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXx-XXXXX. The lower case x are the characters miss me. Do I have to buy another drive or y at - it another way to recover the missing characters?

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