How to recover a Windows serial number from a sticker?

tau2012-05-05 12:55:31

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tau, 2012-05-05 12:55:31

There is a laptop with a licensed Windows sticker.
Part of the characters in the serial number on it is overwritten.
Is there any way to recover this number?

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8 answer(s)

erakitin, 2012-05-05
@erakitin

If Windows is still alive, then you can see the key with the produkey program . True, for some reason, a friend's key on the sticker and the key shown by this program did not match for some reason.

edogs, 2012-05-05
@edogs

If there is a serial norm of the laptop itself, then you can write to the manufacturer, they will ask you to somehow prove that you are the owner, but they can send a serial number ... or a set of disks (for a small amount) with recovery and a sewn serial number.

tau, 2012-05-05
@tau

I looked at the key with a key search program. It does not match the key on the sticker. I'll try to reinstall the system with this key.
Do you think it will be activated?

tau, 2012-05-05
@tau

It turns out I'm not the only one habrahabr.ru/post/90345/

Delka, 2012-05-06
@Delka

I advise you to open new stickers with colorless nail polish - beautiful and reliable, and then the adhesive tape can come off along with the text

Orekhov Alexey, 2012-05-06
@PokimonFromGamedev

Just use a recovery disk from your laptop or similar (you can find an image on the Internet).
During installation, it will not ask for a key and Windows will be legal.

Arezus, 2012-05-07
@Arezus

I had the same situation, the screw flew from the fall of the laptop and everything died along with the recovery section. The sticker is worn out, Windows is tricky, "Windows 7 Home Basic OA CIS and GE". Before the fall, I checked the key with software - it's different. I decided to make everything clean, I called the small soft ones, they said to go quietly through the forest to the north, like I didn’t buy Windows from them - contact the manufacturer of the laptop, it was he who sold you the Windows, the manufacturer said to go north through the forest - he says, “Did you hit a pine tree ? What do we have to do with Windows? At the exit in the internet it was hard with the names of these images, I bought a screw, found the same beech and merged the ghost partition from it and backed it up to an external screw. So it stands now, the remnants of the sticker rolled up with varnish.

Stanislav Ezersky, 2015-07-30
@EzS

The moped is not mine, but suddenly it will come in handy for someone:
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