Is Windows Serial Key Saved On Hard Drive

HDDs and SSDs are identified via their serial number. If you don’t want to open your desktop or laptop to find the hard drive serial number from the command line. Open Command Prompt in Windows. In the Windows search bar, type CMD, and select the Command Prompt from the listed results. Where is HDD serial number stored? And how to access? Mhdjavanmardi Feb 22. I can't access one of my hard drives. You can access the drive serial number through its SMART data.

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My friend's laptop motherboard died and he needs his Windows 7 product key from the hard drive (which is still working).

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I connected the old drive as a secondary drive to my own computer and tried using a key finder utility, but it just keeps showing my own product key and not his.

Is there a way to retrieve the product key from the old drive using my computer?

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It’s possible, but a little tricky. You need to extract the product key from the Windows registry hive files from the target drive.

There’s different ways to do it, but probably the quickest and easiest way is with Nirsoft’s ProduKey:

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Is Windows Serial Key Saved On Hard Drive

1. Download, extract, and run the program (it will show your own key by default)
2. Press F9 to bring up the Select Source dialog
3. Select Load the product keys from external Software Registry hive
4. Browse to the SOFTWARE registry hive. For example, if you have the drive from the other system mounted as drive Z:, then you would probably select Z:WindowsSystem32ConfigSOFTWARE
5. Click [OK]

It should read the hive file from the other copy of Windows and display the appropriate product key.

In this screenshot, I ran ProduKey in Windows XP (installed in C:) and then extracted the key from Windows 7 (mounted as T:). Note how it still says C:Windows since Windows 7 was indeed installed in C:, even though it’s files are currently accessible from T:.

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Thank you for the reply Sayed, but I may not have been clear in my original message. Basically, I had to install Windows 10 on a new drive since the one I originally had upgraded it on died. Running Recovery wouldn't work because my original drive could no longer be read, I did create the Windows 10 ISO, but I installed it as a new Installation.

Apparently, because I had already upgraded and activated Windows 10 prior to my hard drive dying, I was safe. It appears Windows 10 activates itself based on your system's computer ID and doesn't need a specific key to install. Since all I did was change the drive, and not my motherboard, cpu, etc. stayed the same, Microsoft recognized the computer and activated my newly installed copy of Windows 10. No need to re-install Windows 7 and upgrade all over again.

It's great that Windows 10 activates this way. No matter how many times your hard drive dies, you'll still be able to legally install a copy, providing you upgraded to Windows 10 and activated it before the hard drive blew up.