Win2000 Product Key

[Ebra]

We have a machine that will not boot into windows and the costumer lost there disk is there any way of getting the number

Thanks for the help

[Polychronopolis]

If you have another Win2K machine, try this:

Take the user's HDD out of their machine and install it into another Win2K machine.

Open RegEdt32 and Select Open Local. Once that is done, Go to File and select Load Hive.

Open the Customer's drive and go to C:\winnt\system32\config and select (I'm not 100% here) system.

It will ask you to name the Hive. Type in anything here. This should give you access into the user's registry.

In 9X machines, the Prod Key was stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup

I'm on an NT box right now and it does not use the same Prod Keys as 2K and 98. It's worth a shot. If the system hive does not contain HKEY local_machine, just keep loading the other hives until you find it.

--So Suggests Polychronopolis..

[Larommi]

This is the reason I am glad they put the key on the cases these days. Makes my job so much easier.

[Ebra]

yup