Product Key Recovery?

Nick Dorer · Jun 2, 2014

I have a slightly major problem: My HDD got corrupted and my PC lacks a physical product key. I got the "key" that Windows provided (XXXXX-OEM-XXXXX, not nearly long enough) the last time it booted before it blue screened again. It now will not boot (straight to blue screen), and I was wondering: Is there a way to recover it another way? Would Microsoft acknowledge the actual purchase I have and restore my license?

Summary: Cannot boot, have no COA sticker (custom-PC), and a Windows 7 Pro Trial that expires soon.

USAFRet · Jun 2, 2014

If it was preinstalled. you'll probably have to go through who sold you the PC. That is who you 'bought' the OS from. Assuming you still have receipts, etc.

Jaxem · Jun 2, 2014

If you have another PC and an enclosure or dock, you can try plugging it in and using something like Magical Jelly Bean keyfinder to get the key from it. I've had it work on dying drives that wouldn't boot, since the drive doesn't have to actually make it through a boot, the keyfinder just has to be able to get into the registry for a second.

Nick Dorer · Jun 3, 2014

Using the alternate drive (Dual HDDs) with a stock Windows 7 Trial and running ProduKey and Jellybean has resulted in nothing. Unless I've done it wrong on both.

Jaxem · Jun 4, 2014

Jelly bean has a menu option to pick the windows directory it scans, if that isn't working, you probably do need to get in touch with whoever you bought it from

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