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I've a laptop which has a Windows Vista licence sticker on it, but it was downgraded to Windows XP due to reasons. However, the HDD is broken (read errors and bad sectors everywhere) and it will not boot to windows without freezing. And to make matters even worse, it's a 1.8" ZIF HDD.
So ProduKey is out of the question.
I've tried offline nt password & registry editor without success (could not find the key), and now I'm trying my luck with a GUI. So I booted to Parted Magic from UBCD and opened PCRegEdit.
It asks you to open a file and you can then browser registry like you would in windows, but I still can't find the product key anywhere, like it wouldn't exist.
There is no HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
to be found.
What are my options? Hirens BootCD & live windows xp?
3Downvoter, explain yourself. – None – 2014-06-03T10:51:10.450