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Today I found out I had a virus and decided I was going to reformat my HD. I dug up all my driver cd's and back ups along with my Windows XP disk. Well have a problem with the certificate of authenticity number. I wrote the number down on the cd sleeve and it is now missing. The sticker that used to be on the side of the tower was lost when I rebuilt the pc and got a new case. I was wondering if that number is somewhere on my HD in a file or something that will allow me to get it back so I can do a fresh install? Thanx in advance!
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if your pc was something like a dell or gateway that came wit recovery disks, all you need is them...
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If you can't find the number, you might be SOL. You can pickup another OEM version of XP Home edition for less than $100. Try www.newegg.com
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This will do the trick for you on finding the keycode. A word of caution, though: Microsoft will only let you activate the same copy of Windows XP every 120 days. What I have done is, after the initial install and activation, I cloned the hard drive and mothballed the clone. That way, if I have a major crash, it's easier to rebuild the system.
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Not sure if the registry structure is exactly the same in XP, but if you can still access your registry, try looking in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.
The Product Key should be around the same place as the Product ID, which is the number reported in Control Panel|System|General
Best of luck!
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Thanks for the input fellas. The keyfinder program did the trick. Nice tool by the way.
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