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how to find the windows cd key

howard64
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Posted October 25, 2011 at 6:57PM

I have taken the hard drive out of a netbook and I have connected it to my main pc in order to find the cd key so that I can reinstall w7 on it. I have downloaded magical jelly beans key finder and used the hive to view the drive. It tells me I do not have the permissions necessary to do this. Can anyone either tell me how to overcome this or point to another free key finder prog. Thanks in advance.

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Nontek

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:05PM

Reinstall W7 .... in which case, the Key should be on a sticker on the outside of the computer.

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Nontek

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:07PM

PS - I meant to add, on the outside of the original computer of course.

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gengiscant

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:10PM

This a great bit of software will even pull a COA number off a problem PC if you plug the hard-drive in to your own rig.

Produkey

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robinofloxley

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:10PM

WinGuggle may help. I'm not sure these things give you the correct key anyway.

You can backup your existing encrypted key then restore after re-installing.

How to reinstall Windows without reactivate

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howard64

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:20PM

the netbook does not have a cd key sticker on it nor does it even have a manufacturers name but it is well specked 2GB ram 320GB disk web cam. When you try and start it attempts to start w7 ultimate it eventually ends with a bsod and memory dump. I have tried produkey but it does not show it and says that w7 can give it problems. I cannot back it up as I cannot get it to run. I would like to be able to edit msconfig on the drive while connected to mine but do not know how to do this.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 7:47PM

Tried a startup repair?

Put drive back in netbook

Tap F8 as it boots to get into tools select startup repair from the menu.

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howard64

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 8:22PM

thanks Fruit Bat /\0/\ I have tried using startup repair but it fails to correct things

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woodchip

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 11:35PM

My Samsung nc10 Netbook as the Key stuck to the bottom of the Netbook. I put Cellophane over it so it does not get rubbed off

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woodchip

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Posted October 25, 2011 at 11:37PM

PS the one in Regedit is not the same as the one on the Label Windows changes it when you first install windows to a different format Number

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