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Find product Key in Wix XP on registry or from CD?
First I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this. OK.... how do I explain this without getting anyone lost... *scratches head*... I am just getting into virtualization. So, I thought it would be nice to have Windows XP on a vm (virtual machine). So my solution would have been to convert a physical drive into VirtualBox or just install from the installation CD. And this is where I ran into a problem for each of my solutions: 1) I cannot figure out how to convert the drive into VirtualBox (track progress HERE <this is just a link to another post I made in the virtualization ). I've been able to convert it into a VMWare file type, but that's about it. 2) I have two Windows XP installation CD's, one is Home and the other is Professional. I do not have the product key for the Home CD and the Professional only activates a product key when installed on a DELL machine. I do have a DELL Inspiron 6000 laptop.
So, back to my original question: How do you find the product key in Windows XP via the registry or the installation CD.
PLEASE NOTE: I have tried the method where you explore the installation CD and then go into the System32 folder and look under the UNATTENDED.txt and it seams to me that this is ONLY a guide that shows how to install it over several machines.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and Reps for anyone who helps! Have a great day.