receive product key from image!

[Kema]

When i bought my laptop from Lenovo i got Vista home premium installed from factory buti did image of it with acronis true image and installed xp instead but now i want to make a clean backup cd of my vista but sadly my backup archive of vista is corrupted when i try to restore it but i can open the archive inside windows with true image and mount it as a virtual driver and read all files without problem but... is it possible to extract the product key from it? i got the activation file atleast but since i can't boot up system and use abr to save my key i'm stuck!

what i mean with product key is the OEM key installed from factory not my key on label on backside of my laptop.

i tried search function here on forum with no luck!

[Scorp]

HI

Have you tryed this http://www.msfn.org/board/Tutorial-Clean-W...ll-t102095.html

i have never tested it but maybe it will work

Scorp

[IcemanND]

If you can extract the registry and etract the digital productid you can use my keydecoder tool to decode the key.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Decoding-Microso...775#entry383775

[Kema]

any idea howto extract registry? i guess it's in a file somwhere!?

thx in advance.

[IcemanND]

Files to be exact, but you only need one.

c:\windows\system32\config\software

then mount that hive in regedit and extract software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\digitalproductid