I you have a newish Windows PC it probably has Windows 8 installed on it. And when it was new, you probably saw messages about creating recovery media, and about doing backups. Keen to get started, you probably dismissed these as quickly as possible.
But watch out. When Windows is installed a Product Code is needed to activate it. If your machine needs to be reinstalled, this code will be needed. It's not written down anywhere, just stored in an encrypted form on the disk. If the disk fails, the code has gone...and if you didn't generate the recovery disks then there will be no option but to buy a new copy of Windows for around £80!
Older versions of Windows always carried a paper sticker with the code on it
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