How to find XP serial from damaged PC?

[Asp]

I've been given a laptop that had some bad RAM. I replaced the RAM but it appears that Windows borked itself when the RAM was failing and is unbootable.

So I'm going to reinstall XP, but I would like to recover the XP serial number if possible first.

I booted it from a Vista boot disk and ran "Keyfinder".

Which gave me info about the Vista boot, so that was useless.

Is there a utility, boot disk, or any way to extract the serial from an inactive Windows installation?

It's possible of course that that was corrupted too, but I can see what looks like a normal collection of files on the hard disk, so it's worth a try.

Edited July 23, 2010 by Asp

[jaclaz]

Is there a utility, boot disk, or any way to extract the serial from an inactive Windows installation?

Yes.

Here:

jaclaz

[Asp]

Thanks; "Produkey" did the job.