HP Laptop

HP notebook 15 Before problem: Windows 8.1 Home original copy with 4 drives apart C drive which had around 500GBs of data. After problem: Windows 7 home pirated copy with only 1 drive apart from C drive which is empty. Someone please help, a novice had to replace my laptop screen & idk why but...

HP Pavilion 17 Notebook w/ Windows 8. I performed the built in HP diagnostic to find out the hard drive is bad. I prefer to buy a new SSD and install Windows 10. But of course HP has their own media recovery discs that I would have to order. Do you think I could just install my own SSD and...