Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

recovering windows install 8 key not media centre key

  • 26-02-2013 11:05AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,406 ✭✭✭✭


    Just wondering does anyone know how I can recover my windows 8 install product key.

    Both windows and the few products that I have tried, are giving me back the media centre addon key instead of the actual install key.

    I actually have the original key however the issue is that I have a few keys and I'm not sure which one is spefic to this machine so all I even need is the correct last 5 digits


Comments

  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Was it an in-place upgrade or an OEM preinstall?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Open a cmd as admin and paste this Licensingdiag.exe -report %userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab you will get 2 files on your desktop the notepad one should have what you are looking for (I think)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,139 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Keyfinder works for me :)
    mp22 wrote: »
    Open a cmd as admin and paste this Licensingdiag.exe -report %userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab you will get 2 files on your desktop the notepad one should have what you are looking for (I think)

    That seems to give you only a partial product key - here's the bit from my file run on windows 8 pro just now:

    <ActivePartialProductKey>9KT67</ActivePartialProductKey>

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    not sure why it should be needed. recoverydrive.exe will backup windows files to a flash drive and includes the licensing afaik


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22




  • Advertisement
Advertisement