On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:58:12PM -0700, Chris Trask wrote:
> Where would I find the key? If I can locate that, then maybe I
> can create a new Win7 HD with one of those recovery disks from eBay that
> kave no key.
If the W7 machine is still operational, a vbs tool "productkey.vbs" can
get the key. It grabs the binary product key from the registry, and
converts it into the 'normal' human-readable key.
Here is one of them. It looks sensible, seems to not have any nasty
hidden things going on, and seems to work for me):
https://gist.github.com/eyecatchup/d577a2628666a0ad1375#file-get-win7-productkey-vbs
Click the 'Raw' button to get the script as plain text, you'll need to
copy/paste the code into a text file, and rename it to a .vbs file The
key should be 5 sets (separated by a minus sign) of 5 letters/numbers
from the following set: "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
If it's an upgrade key, you may need to have an XP disk to hand to
'qualify' the install (I've never done an XP->7 upgrade). Depending on
the age of the source disk, you'll no doubt have a ton of updates to do.
good luck,
davidt
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