Does OEM partition stores Windows 7 serial key ?

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Published on 2012-09-05T09:08:58Z Indexed on 2012/09/05 9:40 UTC
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Does OEM partition stores the serial key which is grabbed by the Win 7 setup done from the disk provided with laptop.

I realized that when you install clean system from Windows 7 disk you get with laptop, it grabs the serial key or it doesn't ask one. So from where it gets that serial key. Is it the OEM partition or anything else? Or the recovery partition stores the key?

What all the things these two partitions do store in them?

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