Re: Need to find Product ID from Hard Drive



If your computer is still operational:

Retrieve your Windows XP CD key
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

However, if your computer will not boot, then you cannot
obviously use the above program to find the Product Key.
In that case, proceed with the following:

How to replace lost, broken, or missing Microsoft software or hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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"Moses" wrote:

| I need to reinstall XP because something got corrupted and it will not boot.
| I don't have the product ID code or disk anymore, but it is a legit copy of
| XP. Is there any place I can go to extract the Product ID from it somehow.
| My data is still there, but Windows will just not boot. Or is there
| something else I could do?

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