I am having little bit trouble... I have HP DV6700 laptop with Vista Home Premium. The OS Product key is completely faded out and it is not readable. My hard drive is fully corrupted and have to replace it. In addition, I do not have Recovery CD which I purchase from HP. So, my questions here are
a) Is there any software available to find actual Windows Product Key? or is there any way, I can find the product key. I am even ready to but that software. I tried several ones and none of them could find the OEM product key
b) Though my hard drive is corrupted, I was able to clone the hard drive to a new one using Acronis, but it took 6 hours and I have to ignore so many tracks due to corruption of Hard Drive. The first thing what I did after installing the new hard drive was made a set of Recovery CD and and reformat the system to factory image. System came back alive but the problem is I can NOT use windows update (error code: 8024A000) or can not install any of the Service Packs (1-2) which are in CD (error code again). I believe, my recovery partition is corrupted. The easiest solution is purchase Recovery CD from HP. But is there any other solution to get the windows update done. Web browsers are working fine.. IE is v7.0. Current OS: Vista without any Service Pack or updates.
I would really appreciate if somebody could help me to find any software or solution to find the actual windows OEM product key from the computer
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