Can you mount partition in RO mode? Anyway, seems product key is in the registry.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/how-to-recover-your-windows-product-key/f032f08f-f114-46f6-ab81-b28004dd43a0 Just copy registry files and use, for example, hivexregedit to extract your key: http://libguestfs.org/hivexregedit.1.html -- Mykola Ivanets сб, 12 січ. 2019, 18:08 JD користувач jd1...@gmail.com пише: > > > On 01/09/2019 05:41 PM, JD wrote: > > > On 01/09/2019 12:28 PM, Nikolay Ivanets wrote: > > As I mentioned, a second machine with win7 does not detect >> the attached damaged drive in question, so, >> how can I run chkdsk ?? >> > > Is it physical or virtual disk? Can you mount r/o? What exact error do you > have? > >> It is a physical drive. > The GOOD news is that > *Ulf Zibis* > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1a3lsif8ow0gw/?&th=168341702bca25a8&d=u&n=v&dhm=1&v=c&s=t#m_16833ad6d1133b8b> > <ulf.zi...@gmx.de> <ulf.zi...@gmx.de> suggested I use latest testdisk. > > It Worked!!!!! Well, it is still working .... and so far it looks > Grrrrrrrrreat!!! > > It will take a total of 30 hours to finish copying half a TB of files. > > Thank you Ulf!!!! > > > Now that I have been able to extract my files using testdisk, > I have a question about re-installing my win-7 Ultimate 64-bit using the > same COA Key as on the crashed HD. > Problem is I did not have that key saved anywhere :( :( > > Is there a way to extract the key using testdisk? How??? > > Thanx a lot to all who have helped with this. > > _______________________________________________ > ntfs-3g-devel mailing list > ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel >
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