How do you get the product key off the hard drive that contains XP Home?
A friend of mine has a Compaq Desktop with XP Home and he made the six Restore
(?) CD's when he first got it.
It will not reboot and not go back to a previous recovery point. He tried to use
the CDs to Restore it. It will go through the first CD and then tell him to
reboot, but when he reboots, it says 'invalid system disk'.
I gave him an old tower that had XP on it and he put his HDD into it as a
Primary Slave and he can see his old HDD as a F and a G drive, but says it
doesn't access it or display it properly.
Anyhow, I would like to know how he can retrieve his XP product key off his
messed up HDD?
Thanks for any help or ideas.
Buffalo
PS: I had him dl, update, and run Avast! (free) on the good HDD and have it
check the old HDD (it hasn't finished yet).
I also had him run a diagnostic check on his old HDD with the mfg's diagnostic
software and it came out OK.

You can use a product such as this:

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/kfbeta.shtml

hth


Buffalo wrote:

> How do you get the product key off the hard drive that contains XP Home?
> A friend of mine has a Compaq Desktop with XP Home and he made the six Restore
> (?) CD's when he first got it.
> It will not reboot and not go back to a previous recovery point. He tried to use
> the CDs to Restore it. It will go through the first CD and then tell him to
> reboot, but when he reboots, it says 'invalid system disk'.
> I gave him an old tower that had XP on it and he put his HDD into it as a
> Primary Slave and he can see his old HDD as a F and a G drive, but says it
> doesn't access it or display it properly.
> Anyhow, I would like to know how he can retrieve his XP product key off his
> messed up HDD?
> Thanks for any help or ideas.
> Buffalo
> PS: I had him dl, update, and run Avast! (free) on the good HDD and have it
> check the old HDD (it hasn't finished yet).
> I also had him run a diagnostic check on his old HDD with the mfg's diagnostic
> software and it came out OK.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Buffalo wrote:
> How do you get the product key off the hard drive that contains XP Home?
> A friend of mine has a Compaq Desktop with XP Home and he made the six Restore
> (?) CD's when he first got it.
> It will not reboot and not go back to a previous recovery point. He tried to use
> the CDs to Restore it. It will go through the first CD and then tell him to
> reboot, but when he reboots, it says 'invalid system disk'.
> I gave him an old tower that had XP on it and he put his HDD into it as a
> Primary Slave and he can see his old HDD as a F and a G drive, but says it
> doesn't access it or display it properly.
> Anyhow, I would like to know how he can retrieve his XP product key off his
> messed up HDD?
> Thanks for any help or ideas.
> Buffalo
> PS: I had him dl, update, and run Avast! (free) on the good HDD and have it
> check the old HDD (it hasn't finished yet).
> I also had him run a diagnostic check on his old HDD with the mfg's diagnostic
> software and it came out OK.
>
>

"ANONYMOUS" <ANONYMOUS@NEWSGROUPS.COM> wrote in message
news:43B74FE8.521E98D0@NEWSGROUPS.COM...
>
> You can use a product such as this:
>
> http://www.magicaljellybean.com/kfbeta.shtml
>
> hth

Thanks a bunch.

"S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23QJbFeoDGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
> http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en
> http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html
>
> regards,
> S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Thank you very much.

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:27:51 +0530, "S.Sengupta"
<ssengupta_@msn.com> wrote:

>http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
>http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en
>http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html
>
>regards,
>S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
>
>Buffalo wrote:
>> How do you get the product key off the hard drive that contains XP Home?

see download.

I PROMISE you it's not a virus. I just checked it myself,
and I have used it MULTIPLE times!

God bless!

And...


HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Tallahassee



snip

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:43:37 +0000, ANONYMOUS
<ANONYMOUS@NEWSGROUPS.COM> wrote:

>
>You can use a product such as this:
>
>http://www.magicaljellybean.com/kfbeta.shtml
>
>hth
>
>
>Buffalo wrote:
>
>> How do you get the product key off the hard drive that contains XP Home?

Attached.

I PROMISE, this is not a virus.

I just checked it.



Tallahassee!


snip

With all the easy available downloads for the tool, no one should download
your attachment.
While your promise is probably valid, a dishonest person would make the same
claim as you.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


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