Restoring a computer and need product key? for windows?

Question

I am restoring the computer at work and i can preety much get myself around with anything on a computer but i am stumped the product code that came with the cd didnt work does any one know of any way of code to put in its a 25 digit code and its numbers and letters but does any one have like a master code for all of them of any way to hack in and by pass that and still get windows the trouble is that i have to have it by tommorow oh and whom ever can get this answered for me will get 100 best answer points cause i will post whats up 10 times and you can respond and ill pick you for a best answer every time thanks.

Answer 1

no way to hack in and bypass it, but if youre using an OEM computer like a dell compaq or hp and you install off the one time boot menu (f12) it will look to the motherboard abd bypass normal authentification. Also if youre restoring a computer that was properly registered the first time, you can do a registration by phone just tell them youre reimaging a HD and they understand. Check out kb Article ID : 300273. If you havent done the reimage yet, you can go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi... NT\CurrentVersion\ProductID and copy the number there, then reenter it. DO NOT copy another computers ID, you will have a nice little registeres letter sent to you if you do

Answer 2

If you are able to find the boot up disk that comes with the system you should be able to partition the old garbage and start the computer over from scratch no product key needed.

However if you run into problems and have no other solution I would just recommend buying a new operating system (xp home is like 30 bucks on newegg.) and just do that. Also, new hd's are cheap too. Sorry but I don't think you will be hacking your xp any time soon.

Try first to contact windows tech support. If you can substantiate that you are the owner of the software then they should be able to help you out.

Good luck.

Answer 3

yahoo frowns on hacks and such.

But anyway was this a previously used CD? If so probably not working because the number has been used before.
On this company computer. Did they not attach the MS sticker somwhere on the computer.
If this is the same computer but you had to install some sort of new hardware. Then sometimes you have to call MS

Last thing is to call the MS phone number that pops up while installing

Answer 4

First off the Windows CD doesn't list any product key on it or anywhere in the data of the cd...if it did each cd would have to be different.

There are several methods you can use to uncover a lost product key for a version of Windows that you currently have installed.

For older versions of Windows you can extract the product key from the Windows Registry. Click Start | Run and then type regedit and click OK.

For Windows 95 and Windows 98, browse to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductID

For Windows NT 4.0, browse to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductID

Answer 5

sorry you are out of luck if your key numbers dont match your windows cd