Refer to section 5b below on how to use it. Even after re-downloading the ISO twice. Can there be a chance to retrieve my original product key and install the original windows 8. So what can someone with a OEM unbootable computer do? Is there anything? OEM means you had your computer built on the website, in my case HP, is that right? Sorry for being a noob. Quite true, if your label rubbed off Microsoft would simply try to sell you a new license. Notwithstanding the fact they changed the design of the sticker from the durable plastic covered XP version to the paper sticker for Vista and above.
Not really so. Hirens Boot CD is half of what it shoud be. It is very good to access a locked hard drive that was locked by a BIOS supervisor password, it is very good to have such a handy windows GUI interface to recover some files. In fact the produkey software works only for XP and not for Win7. The antivirus programs keep on failing. Only Claim AV did work on my laptop.
There is no software to read the product key stored into the BIOS and erase it thus the software pack is making the interests of the industry that wants you to throw into the garbage bin your laptop or PC when the Windows OS you are using it out of service.
There is probably some good software in the package like Imgburn and other well known programs however there is also a lot of badly made software. I would give this bunch of software pack a vote of 6. It does not pass the real test quality necessary for a computer expert. It is your right to erase the BIOS records for the product key because at time of purchase of your computer I am sure that the vendor did not advice you about this issue that your computer is not really yours, it belongs to the industry.
Thank you for the write up. The system with the old key has been formatted, it's gone. I can't use any program to recover it. As for the part that's bold, requesting a replacement key Then mount the hive it in your own registry and located the key that way.
How old is the computer? If an XP restore disc or key cannot be obtained, perhaps it would be a good time to upgrade to 7, as a last resort, it really is a stable, and speedy OS, runs better on my computers the XP ever did. You can purchase a replacement key from Microsoft.
There is a nominal fee for this. You'll need to ring them and ask tech support first. Not my computer, I'm not going to start to recommend throwing money around like that. She's going off to college in a year, so I'm sure she'll get a new computer then. But she still needs something to get her there. Any suggestion of a program like that for Linux? Where would the registry be located? I'm sorta an Apple guy Is there an i folder on the recovery partition?
If so, see if you can launch the Win install from there. I had some one who didnt have restore CDs but the i install was local on the HD. It didnt ask me for a key and activated just fine.
If after formatting, the Recovery partition is still intact, you try to booting into it. Restart your computer and press any of the function keys F1-F12 and see which one gets you into a what looks at first as Safe Mode but in fact is their Recovery Console. If you can still get into the recovery console, you should be able to restore your computer to factory settings and not have to enter a product key. The HP rep told you that because the person didn't either know how to help or did not have any desire to help.
That old of a system is not supported by HP anymore. Do not let it run. If it doesn't have the folder, then it is a Retail Disk and a key is needed. I'll have to take a look, and see what I can find. I'm not all that familiar with DOS, so I'll have to do some searching to figure this one out. I left the recovery partition alone, I was afraid to touch it. I can browse it via Linux, but I can't seem to force the partition to boot.
The key is F11, however when I do that, all I get is a beeping noise from the computer. I'm not sure why this way isn't working. Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Thanks for your answer. I am a bit confused, I used a utility to find my product key but the key was different from the one one the side of my computer?
Which one should I use? Is it safe to format my hard driv? In reply to jsknight's post on December 3, If you have a computer that came with Windows pre-installed, the "original equipment manufacturer" OEM almost certainly used a special generic product key that Microsoft allows the big OEMs to use in order to make and "pre-activate" their thousands of machines.
That key is what will be shown by a keyfinder utility The specific machine you bought has its own individual license, and that's what's on the sticker.
If you reinstall Windows using a special "hidden partition" on the hard drive, you don't need to activate the computer at all. That method of restoring gets the computer back to the way it was when it first left the factory, i. On the other hand, if you reinstall Windows using a "generic OEM" CD one not specifically for your brand of computer , you need the product key from the sticker in order to activate.
The CD must be for the same version of Windows e. If you bought a new version of Windows, it will have come with its own product key, and that's what you should use, not the one of the sticker or the one used by the original manufacturer.
If necessary, the installation process itself will do that. Actually, you wouldn't be able to format the system drive from within Windows; you'd have to use a different tool to do that think of sitting on a tree limb while wanting to saw it off. Before you get yourself in trouble, perhaps you'd care to explain a why you think you need to reinstall Windows and b what method and what media you plan to use to do this. In reply to LemP's post on December 3, I thought by re-installing XP the computer might run faster.
Would this disk contain drivers for the hardware in my computer? In reply to jsknight's post on December 4, A "Windows XP disk created from a Dell machine" is a bit vague and it's also not clear to me if the old machine where you want to reinstall Windows is the same as the Dell that you used to create the CD. In general, a system restore disk created for a Dell computer won't work on a non-Dell computer.
I'm far from a Dell expert, but it's my understanding that Dell provided a mechanism for creating system restore disks, but only starting with computers sold in
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