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Windows.old - can't find product key
Hi,
I had an issue with new motherboard and my old hard drive. It would not boot into windows so I did a reinstall on it. I had what I thought was the product key from when I originally downloaded Windows 7 from MSDNNA or however it exactly was before Dreamspark.
They key I had written down is actually the product ID and not the product KEY.
I have run Produkey in an attempt to find it using this line i read in another thread,
F:\Windows.old\Windows\System32\config\software
It gave me the correct key for my other program however for Windows 7 it gives me a default key that is not valid. Did I do something wrong with this or am I completely out of luck? I don't have access to the .edu email I used to get Windows 7 from the website 4 years ago.