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My friend's laptop motherboard died and he needs his Windows 7 product key from the hard drive (which is still working). How do I retrieve a product key from another hard drive? Ask Question 24. Get Windows 10 serial key from Windows 7 serial key? I now want to reinstall Windows and fully format the hard drive - however, the sticker with the Windows product key under the laptop is unreadable. I tried recovering the key with ProduKey and similar software but they show another product key - it is different from the sticker's key (I checked on another Asus laptop and on my Dell laptop).
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My friend's laptop motherboard died and he needs his Windows 7 product key from the hard drive (which is still working).
I connected the old drive as a secondary drive to my own computer and tried using a key finder utility, but it just keeps showing my own product key and not his.
Is there a way to retrieve the product key from the old drive using my computer?
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It’s possible, but a little tricky. You need to extract the product key from the Windows registry hive files from the target drive. Sketchup 8 pro serial key.
There’s different ways to do it, but probably the quickest and easiest way is with Nirsoft’s ProduKey:
- Download, extract, and run the program (it will show your own key by default)
- Press F9 to bring up the Select Source dialog
- Select Load the product keys from external Software Registry hive
- Browse to the
SOFTWARE
registry hive. For example, if you have the drive from the other system mounted as driveZ:
, then you would probably selectZ:WindowsSystem32ConfigSOFTWARE
- Click
[OK]
It should read the hive file from the other copy of Windows and display the appropriate product key.
In this screenshot, I ran ProduKey in Windows XP (installed in
C:
) and then extracted the key from Windows 7 (mounted as T:
). Note how it still says C:Windows
since Windows 7 was indeed installed in C:
, even though it’s files are currently accessible from T:
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