With the release of Windows 7 SP1, Microsoft has also updated the Windows 7 DVD media ISO image distributed by Digital River for online order fulfillment. Digital. Methods to Recover Windows Product Key from Dead or Unbootable Windows. If youre a computer technician or the neighborhood tech geek, quite frequently you could find yourself having to reinstall Windows for people. One very common and annoying problem that often arises is the user doesnt have their Windows license to hand and you have to spend time in retrieving the genuine Windows product key from the system if the hard drive is readable. RPPEP9yW3ck.jpg' alt='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' title='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' />A big pain these days is Windows product key stickers on many machines such as laptops and netbooks are paper and dont have the plastic protective coating meaning the key can easily become faint and impossible to read accurately. There are a few ways to retrieve a key from an unbootable computer and most of them involve having access to another working computer. For example, taking out the hard drive and attaching it to a working machine, running a tool that can read product keys, load the registry hive from within the program and retrieve the product key. Or you can boot up PCRegedit, load the registry and then decrypt the key from a working computer. All those steps work but are a bit fiddly and time consuming. Weve tried very hard to look for a linux live CD that can retrieve the license key but couldnt find an obvious one that doesnt involve a long process. But thankfully there are other ways you can do this by using very popular Live Windows CDs that can get the key from a Windows system that cannot boot. Special Note An important thing which needs mentioning is there are 2 different types of Windows product key you might have installed on your system. If you have an OEM machine made by a manufacturer such as Dell, Sony, Asus etc, and have never re installed Windows, your product key will be different. This is a special generic key pre installed at the factory and is NOT the same key as the one on a genuine sticker and cannot be used on a standard Windows re install. If your key is from a sticker or has been typed in manually, these methods will work fine. Method One. The first tool to try and recover your Windows product key is Lazesoft Recover My Password Home Edition. Its a relatively new program released in 2. Home ed., and is designed specifically to do 2 things recover your Windows product key from any version of Windows including Windows 2. PJwwtkS4qH4/TkD2rIaTDUI/AAAAAAAAANo/wyEjZVr4gto/s1600/alienware+copy.jpg' alt='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' title='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' />Windows 8, and secondly it can reset passwords from local administrator and domain accounts. Its also about as easy to use as you could expect this type of recovery task to get. Using Wireshark To Crack Wpa2 With Mac on this page. Download Recover My Password Home Edition and install the program. More experienced users can extract the installer and make the program portable with Universal Extractor. Start Recover My Password and press Burn Bootable CDUSB Disk Now, then click Next. On the media selection screen you can choose to either burn the Recover My Password Win. PE image straight to CD, write onto USB flash drive, or save it as an ISO file for writing out later. Press Commit when you have inserted the media or chosen an ISO save location. Windows-XP-Black-Edition-SP3-ISO-2015-Download.jpg' alt='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' title='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' />Depending on your system, some files will automatically download from Microsoft. Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK to help create the image. When its finished, close the program and boot the computer you want to retrieve the key from with the CD or USB drive. Press enter at the Boot menu or let the 3. At the welcome screen click on the big drop down menu at the top and select Find Windows Product Key. Should I remove ISO Creator 1. Ds Max 2015 Keygen Download Crack'>3Ds Max 2015 Keygen Download Crack. BunnyWabbit Learn how to remove ISO Creator 1. If you have special third party drivers which are needed to recognize your drives, they can also be loaded from here. Click Next and then confirm in the popup you are using the program for non commercial use only. Now Lazesoft Recover My Password will search for and then display the Windows product keys for your system. The good thing is the program will automatically search all active Windows partitions you have on the system, and will show all the Windows product keys it comes across. Lazesoft Recover My Password Home Edition is quite an impressive tool and seemed to work flawlessly on every system we tested it on. Its also not architecture or Windows version specific so you can easily create the CD on Windows XP 3. Windows 7 or 8 6. Method Two. This second method uses the wildly popular Hirens Boot CD and an included utility from Nirsoft called Produkey which can retrieve Windows and also Office keys from a an offline Windows system. Download Hirens Boot CD if you dont already have it and burn to a CD, or if you want to, put Hiren on a USB stick. Boot the CD or USB, choose the Mini XP option and wait for the Windows desktop to load. Click on the Hiren menu in the system tray and navigate to Passwords Keys Product Keys Produ. Key Windows Key Viewer. Windows Xp Alienware Iso' title='Windows Xp Alienware Iso' />When Produkey loads press F9 to open the Select Source window. Click on the second option down Load the product keys of external Windows installations from all disks currently plugged to your computer and then click OK. The Windows and Office keys will then be displayed for you to write down or save to a text file. Joshuas Key Reader is also present in the menu as XP Key Reader Changer and can also read Vista and 7 keys. Refer to section 5b below on how to use it. Theres another method to retrieve your Windows product key on the next page.