Retrieving an office product key from linux?

[zigzag03]

I have a win7 machine that has become unhappy enough not to boot. Before I blow it out and take it to win10, I'd love to recover the Office product key, and I was wondering if I could boot it from a usb Linux distro and is there some program similar to Jellybean under Linux that would allow me to retrieve that key? Anyone have any thoughts on this? tx

 

[Dahak]

While it does not work under linux, you can use nirsoft's produkey(http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html) which will allow you to pull it out from an external source, meaning if you take out the hard drive and hook it up to your machine either internally or through a usb adapter.

 

[john3850]

Dahak your link does not seem to work for me.
magicaljellybean still seems to work.
https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

 

[zigzag03]

I should not have bothered you all when all that's needed was a simple google search, so I'll start with an apology. Here's what I used to retrieve all product codes from the installation.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Be a little careful because they'll want to lay some "freeware" on you, but this works really well. Just use Rufus or another utility to make a bootable stick and you'll have all the tools needed to deal with a DOA install.

 

[Mike64]

Dahak your link does not seem to work for me.

There's just some extra text that inadvertently got "sucked into" the hotlink at the end of the URL. If you copy and paste from the "http" or the "www" prefix through the "html" suffix, the URL itself is fine: www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html.

 

[john3850]

Thanks I downloaded the cd_key_viewer from www.nirsoft.net.
It is newer then the jellybean viewer that I am using.

 

[Dahak]

Yeah, sorry about that, the word which somehow got stuck at the end of the url by accident.
I did fix my post for in the future in case someone else comes across this