Laptop won't boot – need Windows key…

[slipd]

Hi guys,

Got a laptop with a badly damaged (over 1000 bad sectors found during diagnosis!) hard drive, that's fine, but I need the key out of the OS before I bin the drive. The Microsoft sticker usually found on the underside of laptops has long since perished

I can get into the drive via ubcd4win and slax, so the drive's still partially accessible – just need to get the key out…

Any ideas?

 

[slipd]

Could you possibly put the HDD in another PC as an external? or see if you can run something like Produkey as all you need is to tell it where the Windows folder is etc.
Produkey

This might be doable if they do a bootable version? Do they