The motherboard in my computer crashed and I'm going to be building a new one around Tuesday, but I just realized I don't have Windows. My old PC had 7 Ultimate on it, but I lost the disc and everything so I can't get the key. I tried hooking the HDD up to the bare mobo/cpu and starting up and retrieving the key but Windows couldn't start, it just kept crashing and saying it had to repair. I left it going for a while but the repair never finished so I gave up on that idea.
I still have the HDD with Windows and everything on it and I will be installing that drive into my new PC as storage, so I'm wondering if there is any way I can get the product key off that HDD some other way?
I still have the HDD with Windows and everything on it and I will be installing that drive into my new PC as storage, so I'm wondering if there is any way I can get the product key off that HDD some other way?