Recovering Vista Serial

I just upgraded my system's motherboard, chip, and ram and ran into a big
problem. When I booted up for the first time, Vista started to boot up then
reset. When I ran recovery, it told me some drivers were corrupted (probably
the old hardware) . I ran the motherboard disk and installed the new drivers
and to make a long story short, it didn't work. Add that to the fact that I
can't find my serial number sticker and I'm *******. Is there a way to find
my serial using the Dos prompt or can windows pull my serial off my hard
drive if I reinstall? Please help, the copy of Vista is only 4 months old
and I was waiting to put the sticker on when I got the new case + Motherboard
setup

If you deleted the old installation or overwrote it, you will have to find
your sticker or contact the manufacturer for help. Unless you register it
with them, they probably can't help.

"Juiced" <Juiced@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4067D7D-42A2-455C-9F89-C07E70B1C86D@microsoft.com...
>I just upgraded my system's motherboard, chip, and ram and ran into a big
> problem. When I booted up for the first time, Vista started to boot up
> then
> reset. When I ran recovery, it told me some drivers were corrupted
> (probably
> the old hardware) . I ran the motherboard disk and installed the new
> drivers
> and to make a long story short, it didn't work. Add that to the fact that
> I
> can't find my serial number sticker and I'm *******. Is there a way to
> find
> my serial using the Dos prompt or can windows pull my serial off my hard
> drive if I reinstall? Please help, the copy of Vista is only 4 months old
> and I was waiting to put the sticker on when I got the new case +
> Motherboard
> setup

You can try the following utility.

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/...winproductkey/


"Juiced" <Juiced@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4067D7D-42A2-455C-9F89-C07E70B1C86D@microsoft.com...
>I just upgraded my system's motherboard, chip, and ram and ran into a big
> problem. When I booted up for the first time, Vista started to boot up
> then
> reset. When I ran recovery, it told me some drivers were corrupted
> (probably
> the old hardware) . I ran the motherboard disk and installed the new
> drivers
> and to make a long story short, it didn't work. Add that to the fact that
> I
> can't find my serial number sticker and I'm *******. Is there a way to
> find
> my serial using the Dos prompt or can windows pull my serial off my hard
> drive if I reinstall? Please help, the copy of Vista is only 4 months old
> and I was waiting to put the sticker on when I got the new case +
> Motherboard
> setup

'Windows XP and Vista Product Key Recovery · Dagon Design'
(http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/...-key-recovery/)

Try the guide at that URL (it claims to work with vista to), copy the
file to a USB or something so you can read it.


--
manimbored

I got lucky, I downloaded produkey and used that to find the key. The
problem is that almost everything else found the generic installation key. I
used this and broused the registry keys in windows.old . And I got lucky and
found it, then registered vista.. And wouldn't you know it, I found the
sticker after almost 10 hours of looking for it (actually when I stopped
looking for it)...... Maybe Ishould of stopped looking for it sooner.