[dba-Tech] Office Key

have you tried to repair the MBR?
something like this:
boot from your WinXP CD
select recovery console
select the drive
do chkdsk /r
then
fixmbr

HTH
Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Office Key


> Can't boot from the drive - that was the original problem - Dell said the
> drive was fried but I think either the boot track went south or the OS got
> hosed and could have been reloaded after a reformat.  But they swapped it
> out.  They want it back of course so they can return it to the vendor and
> get credit.  But I fought with them to let me have it until Max gets home 
> or
> break so he can see if there's anything else on there that I missed that 
> he
> needs.
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart 
> McLachlan
> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Office Key
>
> It is stored in the Registry, but I have no idea how to get it - it is
> buried somewhere in there in an encrypted format.
>
> If you can boot the drive, Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder will find that and
> other MS product keys for you.  http://www.magicaljellybean.com/
>
> Since it is a Sourcedforge, project, you may be able to work out how to 
> get
> the infor from an off-line registry by looking at the source code.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/keyfinder/files/
>
> --
> Stuart
>
>
> On 25 Oct 2009 at 8:53, Rocky Smolin wrote:
>
>> Dear List(s):
>>
>> My son Max's HD in his Dell LT crapped out about a month ago. Dell
> replaced
>> the drive.  Of course, he had no backups.  I told him to send the drive 
>> to
>> me to see if I could recover some of the irreplaceable files.  Which I 
>> was
>> able to do.
>>
>> When I bought him this system I also got him Office 2007.  OF course, he
>> can't find the original install disk, but he got a copy from someone 
>> which
>> is working but in a few days it's going to stop working because it's not
>> registered.
>>
>> So my question is - is the key stored in the registry somewhere?  If so,
> and
>> I could find it on the old HD, I could email it to him, he could register
>> the copy he's using.
>>
>> MTIA,
>>
>>
>>
>> Rocky Smolin
>>
>> Beach Access Software
>>
>> 858-259-4334
>>
>> www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/>
>>
>> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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