Lost my windows 7 Key, help :(

[bledd]

Have you installed anything over the SSD yet? Or have you only formatted it?

If you've only formatted it, try something like 'testdisk' to recover the old partition. Then use magicjellybean to find it.

Persaonlly, I keep a copy of all my keys on a hardcopy piece of paper

 

[SB420]

its worse than that he THREW the serial number away.... he does not even have the excuse that he lost it...

WTF? How did I throw it away? Learn to read or get off the boards, in particular my thread asking for help.

I lost the key as when I sold my old case.. I ripped the sticker of the back! Thanks for being helpful though

 

[SB420]

SB420, send me an email (see my sig).

also in future don't reinstall anything onto a disk that's crashed, chances are you could have recovered most things.

I tried using it as a 2nd hard drive in my flatmates computer but nothing.. Kept getting "Page fault in nonpaged area" and instant BSODs so didnt know what to do

Have emailed you...

 

[3dcandy]

well that just goes to show that you need to keep stuff safe don't you....now don't think I'm having a go, but you really should have kept a copy or something! I always back-up important stuff for this very reason, writing down product keys etc. if needed.

You will live and learn, but blaming Microsoft for your oversight is really a bit rich don't ya think?

 

[SB420]

lol I wasnt blaming Mircrosoft. I was just saying it would be useful if they stuck it on the back of the book. Just like every damn game I buy or any other software

A sticker on its own is pointless if you ever change your case dont you think?

 

[bledd]

You should have put it in your mates pc as a secondary drive, then loaded up magic jelly bean key finder and pointed it at your hard drive.

Or should have asked here before formatting it..

 

[Banzai_Joe]

Enable your trust SB420 then you may get further help

 

[SB420]

You should have put it in your mates pc as a secondary drive, then loaded up magic jelly bean key finder and pointed it at your hard drive.

Tried that. Though randomly made his PC BSOD in a constant loop. Im not 100% sure though I think it may have been to do with the x amount of hours bug that the C300 drives had on old firmware.

Or should have asked here before formatting it..

This bit is true. I should off though it wasnt till I went and got the windows box.. that I realised I didnt have the code anymore

Annoyingly I was about to get a new SSD (M4) so is a bit annoying that it couldnt have waited another week.. Live and learn

 

[-BA-]

lol I wasnt blaming Mircrosoft. I was just saying it would be useful if they stuck it on the back of the book. Just like every damn game I buy or any other software

A sticker on its own is pointless if you ever change your case dont you think?

Yes but it is also pointless throwing out a case with said sticker on before taking a 20p biro and noting down the product key

 

[Rroff]

Hate to be snide but:

990x @ 4.4ghz - 6GB Corsair Dominator - G1 Assassin - 6970 Crossfire - HX1200 PSU - Corsair 256GB C300 SSD - D14 Heatsink - HAF X Case - BDR205 Blu-Ray

and your quibbling over the cost of an OS License?

 

[Banzai_Joe]

Yes but it is also pointless throwing out a case with said sticker on before taking a 20p biro and noting down the product key

Lol, a good point well made, sir!

 

[SB420]

Yes but it is also pointless throwing out a case with said sticker on before taking a 20p biro and noting down the product key

I probably did... Thing is, I dont know where it is. I would have wrote it somewhere.. God knows where. I assumed I would have put it in the CD case... but....

Hate to be snide but:


990x @ 4.4ghz - 6GB Corsair Dominator - G1 Assassin - 6970 Crossfire - HX1200 PSU - Corsair 256GB C300 SSD - D14 Heatsink - HAF X Case - BDR205 Blu-Ray

and your quibbling over the cost of an OS License?

Actually I have 2 x 7970's now though still feel cheated having to pay for the same thing twice

 

[anjs]

Stick the windows 8 beta on if you are feeling brave

 

[apatia77]

There's is a jelly key alternative which lets you retrieve the key even if you use your hdd in a caddy.

 

[lurkio]

hmmm , you do not need a booting hard drive to extract the windows key

stick the knackered hard drive in a hard drive caddy atttach it to another running windows PC

Use produkey , go to the menu and select read key from other hard drive , point it to your knackered HD and see if it can read it , sometimes you might
need to checkdisk the drive first if it is really fubared

hope this helps