Asp Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Is there a utility, boot disk, or any way to extract the serial from an inactive Windows installation?Yes.Here:jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asp Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 Thanks; "Produkey" did the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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