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Thread ID: 104058 2009-10-15 04:19:00 Office Keys in the Registry WarNox (8772) Press F1
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820828 2009-10-15 04:19:00 Hey!

I know there must be a way to recover an office key from a dead Windows installation but cannot find how. This program (www.ac2tech.com), can decrypt the key once I have found it but I cannot find it in the registry. On the website they only give the location of the actual windows installation key which I did test and it works.

Any help appreciated!!

Assume that I cannot boot into the dead windows installation and that this is the only way :)

Thanks,



Gregor
WarNox (8772)
820829 2009-10-15 04:21:00 Magic JellyBean should do it

Pretty sure you can scan offline registries with it too
Blam (54)
820830 2009-10-15 04:26:00 I should have said that I tried using Magic JellyBeans. I spent about an hour trying to get the Hive from another drive to load, but this didn't work :)

I just need to know the location in the registry where the Office Key is stored, after that I should be all good.

Thanks again.
WarNox (8772)
820831 2009-10-15 04:27:00 Magic JellyBean should do it

Pretty sure you can scan offline registries with it too

If the registry is OK and not corrupt then you can slave the drive, that has the copy of office you want to get the key from on it, to another machine and run Magical Jellybean and then load hive and point it to the windows folder on the that drive.
CYaBro (73)
820832 2009-10-15 19:51:00 I put the drive into another computer through a usb, not as a slave, which didn't work. Does it need to be booted up as slave in order to load the hive?

I'll try booting from a bart pe cd with KeyFinder in there to see if that picks up the keys. Hopefully it'll work.
WarNox (8772)
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