When i bought my laptop from Lenovo i got Vista home premium installed from factory buti did image of it with acronis true image and installed xp instead but now i want to make a clean backup cd of my vista but sadly my backup archive of vista is corrupted when i try to restore it but i can open the archive inside windows with true image and mount it as a virtual driver and read all files without problem but... is it possible to extract the product key from it? i got the activation file atleast but since i can't boot up system and use abr to save my key i'm stuck!

what i mean with product key is the OEM key installed from factory not my key on label on backside of my laptop.

i tried search function here on forum with no luck!

HI

Have you tryed this http://www.msfn.org/board/Tutorial-Clean-W...ll-t102095.html

i have never tested it but maybe it will work

Scorp

If you can extract the registry and etract the digital productid you can use my keydecoder tool to decode the key.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Decoding-Microso...775#entry383775

any idea howto extract registry? i guess it's in a file somwhere!?

thx in advance.

Files to be exact, but you only need one.

c:\windows\system32\config\software

then mount that hive in regedit and extract software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\digitalproductid